age-of-offender
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-6046 | Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Florida | Florida | 2023-11-17 | Denied | IFP | age-of-culpability age-of-offender criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment roper-v-simmons scientific-evidence | 1. Does this Court's holding in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), that the death penalty is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment for i… |
| 20-6746 | Jonathan Loyd v. Florida | Florida | 2020-12-31 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing | Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-8712 | Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas | Texas | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | age-of-offender brain-development death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness neuroscience roper-v-simmons | Whether, under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future … |
| 18-8298 | Jermaine Brazill v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-offender cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process-rights eighth-amendment independent-inquiry juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-health rehabilitation rehabilitative-potential young-age | Was it a violation of due process for the trial judge to rely purely on an opinion conducting any independent inquiry into the Petitioner's fitness. … |