aggravating-circumstance
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7029 | Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-03-19 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstance aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion | Does Oklahoma's continuing threat aggravating circumstance violate this Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendme… |
| 21-5525 | Thomas Richardson v. Nevada | Nevada | 2021-08-31 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstance court-martial death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief rompilla-standard rompilla-v-beard | Whether the Nevada Supreme Court misapplied the law by failing to examine or analyze the failure of counsel to investigate readily available informati… |
| 20-5517 | Scotty Ray Gardner v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-08-27 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-instructions | I. In a state in which the death penalty is authorized only upon a finding of an enumerated aggravating circumstance, does due process require that ev… |
| 19-5153 | Christopher B. Ramirez v. Washington | Washington | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravating-circumstance criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure jury-instructions notice photographic-array police-misconduct sixth-amendment suggestive-circumstances suggestive-identification | 1. In Perry v. New Hampshire , 565 U.S. 228, 232 (2012) the Court held the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process requires exclusion from trial an … |
| 18-8002 | Brad Hunter Smith v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2019-02-15 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances arbitrary-imposition capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigating-circumstance mitigating-circumstances | Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's holding that a capital-sentencing jury permissibly declined to weigh an existent statutory mitigating circumstanc… |