cognitive-deficits

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
22-7424	Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Florida	Florida	2023-05-01	Denied	IFP	age-of-culpability cognitive-deficits cognitive-impairment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-age neuropsychological-disorder state-constitutional-law	1. Does a state constitutional provision which prohibits any consideration of evolving standards of decency violate the Eighth Amendment? 2. In light…
21-6211	Cubby Wayne Williams v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2021-11-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	brain-injury cognitive-deficits criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony good-faith mens-rea rule-702 traumatic-brain-injury willfulness	Whether, in a case in which the government was required to prove that the defendant was not working from a good faith misunderstanding of the law, the…
20-1155	Jonas David Nelson v. Minnesota	Minnesota	2021-02-23	Denied	Amici (2)Response Waived	cognitive-deficits cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mental-illness proportionality proportionality-review	1. Whether the Eighth Amendment right to narrow proportionality review of sentences of life without release entails a right to a hearing at which evid…