brain-development
13 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6356 | RonAllen Hardy v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brain-development cognitive-maturity cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-principles | 1. Whether sentencing RonAllen Hardy to life without parole, despite his being 18 years and 5 months old at the time of the offense and developmental… |
| 23-7028 | Hunter Thomas Boesch v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brain-development cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults late-adolescent-brain-development mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-protections youth | Whether the sentencing protections afforded in Miller v Alabama, 567 US 460 (2012) should be applied to defendants who are emerging adults- 18 to 20 y… |
| 22-7625 | Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2023-05-24 | Denied | IFP | brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment | Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who … |
| 20-7049 | Edwin Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment age-based-sentencing brain-development constitutional-interpretation criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation | In Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455, (2012), this Court held mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile homicide offenders violates the Ei… |
| 20-5887 | Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-10-02 | Denied | IFP | age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing | I. The Constitution prohibits punishments that are cruel and unusual. In addition to the crime committed, the juvenile offender's age must also be tak… |
| 20-5217 | David Kelsey Sparre v. Florida | Florida | 2020-07-30 | Denied | IFP | adolescent-brain-development brain-development constitutional-rights first-degree-murder harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing prejudice trial-strategy | 1. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and execute the defense trial strategy, which would have significantly undermined the State's case f… |
| 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 … |
| 19-7574 | Luis Beltran v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing | In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), and Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016), this Court held that sentencing a juvenile defendant (i… |
| 18-9031 | In Re Michael Brandon Samra | 2019-04-30 | Denied | IFP | brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience | In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … | |
| 18-9033 | Michael Brandon Samra v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-04-30 | Denied | IFP | brain-development capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards evolving-standards-of-decency juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neuroscientific-research | In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … |
| 18-8041 | Mark Johnson v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adolescent-culpability age-as-factor age-of-culpability brain-development criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana roper-v-simmons | This Court has issued at least four decision finding that adolescents are less culpable than adults. Dr. Laurence Steinberg has determined that the li… |
| 18-7467 | Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing | Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa… |
| 18-5276 | William Clark v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations | Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old? Whether the Equal Protection clause is violated where other courts have a… |