| 25A926 |
Melvin Trotter v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-02-19 |
Application |
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cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection protocol-violation stay-of-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6853 |
Melvin Trotter v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
IFP |
baze-glossip-test cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment lethal-injection maladministration method-of-execution |
This Court has determined that the Baze-Glossip test applies to all Eighth Amendment method of execution claims. This test has been expanded to encomp… |
| 25-6832 |
Stanley Donald v. Carol Mici, Individually and as former Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions procedural-due-process |
Did the inmate state an actionable claim under the Federal Constitution's 8th Amendment when prison officials deliberately exposed him to COVID-19 and… |
| 25-960 |
Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
|
corrections-leadership covid-19-response cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment public-health-emergency qualified-immunity |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires state corrections leadership to implement an overall "reasonable" statewide response to a public-health emerg… |
| 25-6678 |
Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum proportionality sentencing |
Are the mandatory minimum life sentence provisions of Virginia Code §§ 18.2-61(B)(2) and 18.2-67.2(B)(2) unconstitutional as constituting Cruel and Un… |
| 25-6317 |
Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution statute-of-limitations |
1. Because a method-of-execution-challenge involves a future harm, and not a past harm, lower courts have struggled to determine when the claim accrue… |
| 25-6179 |
Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit |
I. Under its original meaning, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment was interpreted as including disproportionate and arbi… |
| 25-5928 |
Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
comparative-analysis cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia |
When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe … |
| 25-5829 |
Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment elderly-defendant standards-of-decency |
1. Does the execution of the elderly violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment… |
| 25-5757 |
Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment writ-of-mandamus |
Will SCOTUS order a writ of mandamus to stop the State of Oregon from punishing Freda with cruel and unusual punishment and stop the Constitutional vi… |
| 25-5534 |
Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder fourteenth-amendment |
Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of Due Process and Equal Prot… |
| 25-5371 |
Douglas Manning v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-facility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prisoner-treatment |
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| 25A136 |
Byron Black v. Frank Strada, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-protocol implanted-cardioverter-defibrillator irreparable-harm lethal-injection |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5261 |
Byron Black v. Frank Strada, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-method injunctive-relief medical-procedure |
1. Where a state government facilitated the implantation of a cardiac defibrillator that has been shown to be very likely to result in severe pain dur… |
| 25A104 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-and-capricious cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-override |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5136 |
Christopher Thomas Scamahorn v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders meaningful-opportunity rehabilitation |
Question 1: Whether under the Eighth Amendment as applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibi… |
| 25-5056 |
Edward Lee Busby, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability |
Where the clinical criteria unequivocally establish that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled, and where all the experts -- including the exp… |
| 24-7151 |
Zane Michael Floyd v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-ruling capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus |
Whether, given this medical consensus, the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment, and this Court's rulings in Atkins and Roper, a state may constit… |
| 24-6893 |
Jonathan Taum v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment hudson-v-mcmillian prison-guard prisoner-rights |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it disregarded Petitioner Taum's argument that Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1 (1992) was wrongly decided and should… |
| 24A898 |
Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
corrections-officer cruel-and-unusual-punishment custodial-sexual-abuse eighth-amendment excessive-force prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6778 |
Jessie Hoffman v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-gassing religious-freedom rluipa |
1. Whether a method of execution that superadds psychological suffering—including terror and mental anguish—compared to an available alternative metho… |
| 24-6757 |
Caed Brawner v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole |
Whether a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual punish… |
| 24-6450 |
Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment florida-law post-conviction-relief sexual-battery |
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| 24-6186 |
Vicente Alejo Andres, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. When a defendant sells drugs from his house at the same time he has a firearm in his house, is that enough to prove that he possessed the firearm "… |
| 24-5993 |
Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia superadded-terror |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment bar a method of execution that includes conscious suffocation?
2. Does the… |
| 24-5950 |
Terry Eugene Iversen v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence public-indecency recidivist |
Whether Mr. Iversen's sentence to life without parole for recidivist public indecency by exposing his genitals constitutes cruel and unusual punishmen… |
| 24-5904 |
Allen Ward Cox v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-damage cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment evolving-standards medical-condition mental-impairment |
1. Whether the Petitioner's medical condition which includes brain damage
and dementia that results in impulse control deficits, impaired executive fu… |
| 24-5671 |
Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against crue eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-limitation |
Christeson v. Roper, 574 U.S. 373 (2015), held that a conflict of interest could satisfy the "interests of justice" standard set forth in Martel v. Cl… |
| 24-5466 |
Jarell Davis Terry v. William Straughn, Deputy Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force pro-se-prisoner |
Ms the use of -bra mmst a handcuffed aod .compliant fftl Terry along with the use of tiqhhny words and dmerak action of fdriathnij evidem ana tods i t… |
| 24-74 |
In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey |
|
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court |
Since birth, Alphonza L. P. Thomas-Bey has been held hostage in an unfair, unjust, social, economic, and legal system. And all questions raised and lo… |
| 24-5125 |
Corvin J. Young v. Spartanburg County Detention Facility, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-custody habeas-corpus medical-treatment pretrial-detention prison-conditions prisoner-rights |
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| 24-5095 |
Moises Gamboa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
DID THE LOWER COURTS IMPROPERLY INTERPRET UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE § 4C1.1 THAT VIOLATED THE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT CLAUSE OF THE EIGH… |
| 24-5060 |
Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole |
Pennsylvania |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes |
After being rebuked for forbidden cruelty by this Court's own landmark 1972 Furman decision, Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes enacted in response to… |
| 24-5065 |
Damon John Broussard v. Lousiana |
Louisiana |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Does Petitioner's, harsh and unprecendented, sentence of
fourty years, without benefits, constitute cruel and unusual
punishment, in violation of th… |
| 23-7733 |
Thomas Richard Ward v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights coram-vobis criminal-procedure criminal-record-expungement cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process plea-bargain plea-colloquy protection-order-violation |
Whether or not Petitioner's Due Process according to U.S. Amendments V, VI, & XIV was violated due to errors Coram Vobis committed in the plea colloqu… |
| 23-7727 |
Everett G. Miller v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-statute |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of our statute's aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was co… |
| 23-7686 |
Sammy David McLain, Jr. v. Michelle L. Thaller, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-fines judicial-jurisdiction standing sua-sponte-dismissal tort-claim |
I. Can a Judge(s) dismiss a Claim sua sponte (frivolous) involving a Tort (civil wrong) Code (statute) Injury (loss of a legal right) and an Act (law)… |
| 23-7612 |
Wade Lay v. Christie Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process execution-delay federal-review federalism habeas-corpus standing state-prisoner |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7591 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-counsel access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-procedure prisoner-rights |
1. Whether given the unique pattern in Alabama's recent executions, in which Defendants have misrepresented critical facts and prohibited access to co… |
| 23-7520 |
Toran Peterson v. Esmaeili Emami, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exhaustion juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence mental-health prison |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7500 |
Jonathan Pendleton v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ngri-statute |
Whether and to what extent Virginia's "not guilty by reason of insanity" (NGRI) statutes, I.
Va. Code § 19.2-182.2, et seq., are facially unconstituti… |
| 23-7505 |
Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-petition parole procedural-document sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7417 |
Nersius Adonliel Artisani, aka Roger Joseph Hoffert, Jr. v. Iowa, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment heat-exposure prison-conditions |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7328 |
Leslie Hood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment employment probation-requirements sentencing sentencing-discretion supervision supervision-conditions |
1. Was the district court's imposition of supervision conditions requiring Mr. Hood to obtain some form of work/employment violated the Eighth Amendme… |
| 23-7318 |
Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection executive-power individual-rights intellectual-disability judicial-review separation-of-powers state-sovereignty |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7303 |
Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing |
WHETHER THE EIGHT AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONS I TUT I ON11S PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL/ AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT REQUIRE THE PROTECTION GRANTED U… |
| 23-7283 |
Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences non-capital-sentences proportionality-review sentencing |
Did the Ninth Circuit contravene Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by essentially exempting all sentences that a district court imposes under 21 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-7261 |
Geary Wayne Walton v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7153 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2024-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution |
When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica… |
| 23-7149 |
Deterrius Wilson v. Randy F. Philhours, Circuit Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit, Crittenden County, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compensation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process retaliation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7093 |
Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-statute state-courts |
When a state court carelessly or negligently enters a cause claim, to enhance a criminal sentence, does it violate a person's due process rights and c… |
| 23-7086 |
Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 23-7033 |
Donte Taylor v. California |
California |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
1) WHy was my 8th amendment denied?
2) Why was my sentence not considered cruel or unusual? |
| 23-6988 |
Anthony Shief v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's protections under Miller v. Alabama require certain sentencing procedures for defendants convicted of crimes committed … |
| 23-6879 |
Christopher Sean Burrus v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-requirements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mental-health sentencing-law |
1. Washington's personal identity petition hon eastern powers Conviction proceedings Who Are loucden & pcoa? a boty Sed +o Nhe. Setidioned oN ise.) Be… |
| 23-6824 |
Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
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| 23-6655 |
Ralph Hall v. Anthony J. Annucci, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-action constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review legal-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6640 |
Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-claim collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation coram-nobis cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-error res-judicata |
Did South Dakota Supreme Court abuse its discretion, affirming South Dakota Fourth
Judicial Circuit Court 's dismissal of Petitioner 's Petition For W… |
| 23-6562 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction ptsd-trauma standing |
Did the Eleventh Circuit deviate from established precedent when it affirmed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction on the ground that hi… |
| 23-6517 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia posttraumatic-stress-disorder |
Does a second attempt to execute a condemned person following a single, cruelly willful attempt to execute that same person violate the prohibition ag… |
| 23-6512 |
Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6431 |
Mariano Madrid v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-law judicial-review juvenile-justice legal-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6389 |
Michael Lavern Boyd v. Lay, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process legal-provisions medical-care petition prison supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-688 |
Travis Scott King, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Breanna Raymundo, et al. v. DeMichael Dews, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-harm civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-v-mcmillian prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
This case arises out of the use of force for seven minutes on Petitioner Travis King by three correc-tional officers that ultimately resulted in King'… |
| 23-692 |
Zachariah Minix v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-withdrawal |
Petitioner, Zachariah M. Minix (Minix), appeals as a matter of right from an Adair County Circuit Court Judgment and Sentence on Plea of Guilty that i… |
| 23-6301 |
Delbert Leroy Oldham v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines res-judicata sentencing |
(1). Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res judicata to "Petition In Error" because Petitioner raised Constitutional error… |
| 23-6159 |
Eddie James King v. Doctor Aikens, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment medical-care search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6119 |
Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process enabling-child-abuse judicial-discretion sentencing-range statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague |
1. Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at th… |
| 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… |
| 23-442 |
Anthony Prescott v. K. Johnson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment food-contamination food-service fourth-amendment intentional-tort official-capacity-claim prisoner-rights public-entity use-of-force |
Question: Does involuntary exposure to any non-medically necessary medication, steroid, chemical cleaning compound, schedule II drugs, toxin or any un… |
| 23-5803 |
Robert K. Decker v. Edwin Baez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect federal-question shackling spoliation |
Did the United States District Court, Magistrate Judge err in the decision to have the Plaintiff, Robert K. Decker be hand cuffed, (left wrist) and sh… |
| 23A316 |
Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-safety due-process eighth-amendment execution-method lethal-injection |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5730 |
Blaise Caroleo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether a waiver of the protections against cruel and unusual punishment afforded to a defendant under the Eighth Amendment is valid and enforceabl… |
| 23-5708 |
In Re Michael Stansell |
|
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment life-sentence void-sentence |
I. WHETHER THE INFLICTION OF A LIFE SENTENCE UPON A PRISONER WHERE THE LIFE TAIL IS NOT APPLICABLE TO HIS OFFENSE OF CONVICTION CONSTITUTES CRUEL AND … |
| 23-5668 |
Maurice Bellamy v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness count-severance criminal-indictment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process indictment joinder severance trial-court-discretion |
I. Whether the trial court erred when it denied defendant's repeated motions to sever counts in the indictment
II. Whether the cruel, heinous and atr… |
| 23-5571 |
Deon Jefferson Johnson v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-guidelines |
PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JURY TRIAL DUE TO HIS CONVICTION BASED ON A HUNG JURY.
PETITIONER WAS DENIED … |
| 23-5547 |
Timothy James Hahn v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a defendant who was under the age of twenty-five at the time of the offen… |
| 23-5485 |
Paul M. Poupart v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court statute-validity |
Whether LSA-R.S. 15:529.1, is unconstitutional to the rule of law. Whether the State of Louisiana and its legislative and judicial branch created and/… |
| 23-5466 |
Toddell Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
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Qc,S);AIK Tte ow* jr* *O… |
| 23-175 |
City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (109)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment circuit-split civil-citations constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness public-camping |
Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Ei… |
| 23-5219 |
Jerry Wilson, aka Steve Vic Parker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a United States Citizen Wrongfully Imprisoned "LIFE INDANGER" ?
2. What is Permission Granted by a United States Distrist Judge?
3. Can (1) On… |
| 23A64 |
D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment military-confinement sentence-appropriateness uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5167 |
Jose Suarez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessorial-liability accessorial-participation criminal-culpability criminal-record cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Does a mandatory life sentence without parole for an individual who was twenty at the time of the offense, who was without a criminal record, who had … |
| 23-5145 |
James Edward Barber v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emotional-anguish execution execution-protocol lethal-injection medical-suffering physical-suffering |
1. Did the Eleventh Circuit correctly hold that no amount of physical suffering and emotional anguish imposed by allowing hours-long and countless att… |
| 23-5098 |
Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Employees, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5025 |
Kelly Sundberg v. California |
California |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7 |
Lynn Hamlet v. Officer Hoxie |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment prison-conditions procunier-v-navarette qualified-immunity section-1983 |
I. Whether it is "clearly established" for purposes of qualified immunity that the Eighth Amendment bars a prison official from forcing a person with … |
| 22-7753 |
Jane Doe, Female Juvenile v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-juvenile-act juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-v-alabama ripeness transfer-to-adult-proceedings |
When a juvenile is charged by Juvenile Information with First Degree Murder pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1(a), 1151 & 1153, and the government files a … |
| 22-7752 |
Arthur Taylor v. Landon Bird, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-neglect prison-conditions prisoner-rights toxic-exposure |
Petitioner: IasKtobe Release UNder the case Law of Prima Facie cage's and to becompen sated FoR the aMouNt of EleveN MillioN as IpRayFOR Relief of thi… |
| 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 … |
| 22-7618 |
Dennis Dewayne Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE SENTENCE OF 138 MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED ON A FIRST-TIME OFFENDER VIOLATED THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL … |
| 22-7547 |
Carl Lee Ashley v. Mary Boayue, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-standard objective-prong prison-conditions standing |
DID WE ' OOURT OF APPEALS ERR IN FINDING THAT PETITIONER COULD NOT ESTABLISH THE OBJECTIVE PRONG OF HIS EIGHTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS. |
| 22-7523 |
Samuel Caison v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment incarceration mental-health nature-of-crime personal-characteristics sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines |
Whether imposing a period of incarceration that is within the Sentencing Guidelines range can be considered cruel and unusual punishment when the offe… |
| 22-7532 |
In Re Rex Gard |
|
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is Petitioner actually innocent and has a miscarriage of justice occurred?
2. Is the South Dakota Supreme Court's overturning of their own precede… |
| 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… |
| 22-7432 |
Willie Glover, Jr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment executive-order human-rights recidivism sentencing-guidelines standing |
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| 22-7326 |
Quandraiko Hayes v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto sentencing |
COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT THE U S
UNREASONABLY DENIED PETITIONER, DUE PROCESS OF
DUE PROCESS CLAUSE RIGHTS OF THE U.S.
AMENDS V AND XIV… |
| 22-7305 |
Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-challenge method-of-execution prisoner-rights scientific-consensus severe-pain standing |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or … |
| 22-7267 |
Lloyd Leslie Kindred v. T. Cisneros, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice outcome-determination prejudicial-error reasonable-probability sixth-amendment |
Brawnds(f), tas J deated the 6TH mend ment oF Heo VU, Lornctidubion: Ke oarebing Lown sed s Pray Mianee. Wa ad teas onobhy et&ti ve"and Hrat Here /5 a… |
| 22-7236 |
Louis Gaskin v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment espinosa-v-florida fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process procedural-rules sixth-amendment |
1. Whether evolving standards of decency have rendered Mr. Gaskin's death violative of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishm… |
| 22-7177 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. Chris Tripp, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7127 |
William Michael Meyer v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality state-court-adjudication term-of-years-sentences |
In 2015, Mr. Meyer was sentenced to a total of 230 years in prison after a jury convicted him of 23 counts of possession of child pornography. This wa… |
| 22-7113 |
Atdom Mikels Patsalis v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggregate-length-of-sentences cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality term-of-years-sentences |
1. When a state court expressly refuses to consider a petitioner's constitutional claim, has that court nevertheless adjudicated that claim "on the me… |
| 22-7062 |
Ricardo Noble v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discretion-abuse due-process equal-protection prison-classification retaliation standing |
This UnconStitu tonal for judges and Prison
$taer to allow their PET Sonal preyadices te interfere |
with their ability to de their job. LiteKky v WSs… |
| 22-6960 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6930 |
Robert Earl Hackney v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jury-trial standing writ-of-certiorari |
The questions before this Court is asked with impartialities on whether it can be presumed given the facts underlined in this writ, that if a petition… |
| 22-6762 |
Ryan Galal Van Dyck v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-sentencing proportionality sentencing |
Does a mandatory de facto life sentence for mere possession of child pornography images, when the person has never directly abused or attempted to abu… |
| 22-693 |
Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement |
Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju… |
| 22-6555 |
Steven Charles Hill v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT?
WAS THE LIFE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MR. HILL GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE? DOES THE LIFE SE… |
| 22-6534 |
Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review |
(1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors, as the Fir… |
| 22-6524 |
Barry L. Brookins v. Rajendra Dwivedi |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-procedure state-law |
1. THE PLAINTIFF 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT UNDER A DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE HAS BEEN VIOLATED THROUGH AN UNLAWFUL SURGERY PERFORMED WITHOUT TH… |
| 22-6515 |
Christopher Raiche v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten… |
| 22-569 |
In Re Christopher Dunn |
|
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process freestanding-actual-innocence habeas-corpus lincoln-v-cassady missouri post-conviction-relief |
1. Is it cruel and unusual punishment and a substantive due process violation for an innocent man to remain in prison?
2. Is the claim of freestandin… |
| 22-6231 |
William Dustin Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violat… |
| 22-505 |
Tamika J. Pledger v. Gloria Geither, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment affidavit arrest-warrant auto-accident civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process frank-v-delaware no-fault-auto-insurance probable-cause toxicology |
A. Does Affidavit for Application for Arrest Warrant include "false statements knowingly and intentionally, or with reckless disregard for the truth "… |
| 22-6134 |
Eugene Riley III v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Did the State Court violate the U.S. Constitution when it imposed a 32 year sentence when it disregarded the mitigating factors laid out in Miller v. … |
| 22-6049 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice |
Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p… |
| 22-6006 |
Justin Richard Testani v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity |
1. Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences when Mr. Testani never had physical contact w… |
| 22-5825 |
Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review |
1) Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence?
2) Whether the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana, … |
| 22-337 |
Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Suwannee River Water Management District |
Florida |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-law county-judge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process florida-statute florida-statutes judicial-assignment state-circuit-court trial-by-jury |
In this matter, the Florida First District Court of Appeal verbally stated on February 12, 2009; "We're dealing with — an agency can only act with the… |
| 22-5814 |
Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5771 |
Shawn Canada v. Olmsted County Community Corrections, All Staff Members, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process proportionality prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5686 |
Curtis Lee Henderson, Sr. v. California |
California |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parole parole-denial youth-offender |
WAS IT CRUEL AND UNUSUAL TO CONDEMN HENDERSON'S AMBLE FROM 25-TO-LIFE PLUS FIFTEEN, TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE WITHOUT A COURT HEARING, AFTER SERVING 30 Y… |
| 22-5472 |
Aaron Michael Shamo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act chemical-compound chemical-compounds controlled-substance counsel-waiver cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-distribution drug-sentencing eighth-amendment essential-elements fentanyl statutory-interpretation |
In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which provided for a mandatory life without parole sentence for drug offenders who distributed very … |
| 22-5405 |
Perry Sawano v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review |
1) Does the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits
the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment require that a sentencing
court… |
| 22-5297 |
Jean Max Darbouze v. California |
California |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment helling-v-mckinney state-application |
Amendment Constitutional ^The^R^spondent violated the Petitioner 8th
Rights.ALso applied tothe State California Via 14th Amendment
to the U.S.Constit… |
| 22-5245 |
Pamela McCoy v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-proceeding juvenile-sentencing manifest-injustice sentencing-review |
I. Does the decision of the Florida State Courts to deny the Petitioner relief ruling that the Petitioner's thirty-five (35) year sentence as a juveni… |
| 21-8177 |
Marlin Larice Joseph v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness sixth-amendment standards-of-decency |
Does the death penalty in and of itself violate the Eighth Amendment in light of contemporary standards of decency and the geographic and other arbitr… |
| 21-8156 |
Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. Jeffrey Alvarez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-treatment prisoner-rights |
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| 21-8046 |
Joseph Martin Danks v. California |
California |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-culpability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights mental-health state-liability state-responsibility |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable,… |
| 21-8006 |
Charles A. Inko-Tariah v. Federal Medical Center Butner, NC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment medical-malpractice unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
1) Was the U.S Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit, Richmond, Virginia correct in affirming the decision of the U.S District Court, EDNC, Raleigh,… |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) - a stat… |
| 21-7778 |
Lester Ochoa v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment cullen-v-pinholster eighth-amendment family-sympathy jury-instructions mitigation mitigation-evidence |
Whether a State court may, consistent with the Right Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment, prohibit jurors from con… |
| 21-7709 |
David C. Morris v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-judicata sentencing sentencing-error statutory-authority statutory-authorization |
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| 21-7686 |
Robert Maillet v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process sex-offender-registry supervised-release |
UNDER
ISSUE 1: Is §3583 ('Supervised Release) as it stands after 3583(k) was found
to be unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, and so, void in whole?
D… |
| 21-7663 |
Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent |
1) Whether a demonstration that a state constitutional test is less protective than the federal constitutional test means that an adjudication of the … |
| 21-1363 |
Brandon Scott Lavergne v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole plea-agreement rule-60b-petition solitary-confinement |
1) Is a criminal sentence of life without parole in
solitary confinement a cruel and unusual sentence?
2) Ifone federal district court finds I was no… |
| 21-1332 |
Waseem Daker v. Timothy Ward, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-borne-disease blood-borne-diseases civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process imminent-danger incarcerated-rights prison-litigation-reform-act serious-physical-injury standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
I. Whether an incarcerated person must allege presently occurring or certain-to-occur serious physical injury in order to successfully invoke the "imm… |
| 21-7547 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion, such as COVID-19, violate his Eighth Amendment right to be free fro… |
| 21-7512 |
Kevin E. Herriott v. Major Parrish, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force good-faith good-faith-effort law-enforcement |
1) WHETHER PETITIONER GIVE DEFENDANTS PATQ OTICE OF WHAT THE CLAIMS ARE AND THE GROUND UPON WHICH IT RESTS?
2) WHERE OFFICERS VIOLATE THE RULE ANNOUN… |
| 21-7498 |
Eric Lloyd Hermansen v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
atypical-hardship civil-rights constitutional-protection covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus health-complications prisoner-rights |
Are State prisoners protected under this Court's decision in Helling v. McKinney from being forcibly subjected to its unknown health complications/ ex… |
| 21-7457 |
Gregory Wynn v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Whether, in light of the uncontroverted evidence of Gregory Wynn's potential for maturity and positive change as an adult, his sentence of life impris… |
| 21-7423 |
Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1268 |
Joe Clarence Smith, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment habeas-relief method-of-execution section-1983 |
1. Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
2. Whether a method of execution involving 44 years of mos… |
| 21-7367 |
Adam Shane Swindle v. S. Ma'at |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation court-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pandemic-review record-review |
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| 21-7303 |
Edward Pinchon v. Raymond Byrd, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-precedent |
At age 17, Edward Pinchon was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of a middle-aged man who was sexually abusing him. Tennessee law mandat… |
| 21-7290 |
James L. Caudle v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-parte-communication impartial-jury life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence |
I. Whether the fight to due process of law has been denied by State courts allowing the State to evade addressing whether the right to confront the on… |
| 21-7250 |
Michael Ray Fortuna v. Robert Hudgins, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment disability-accommodations due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety isolation-conditions medical-neglect prison-conditions prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7232 |
Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Are all U.S. prison officials required to provide all prisoners with healing spiritual medication for epilepsy, to prevent seizures that cause death?
… |
| 21-1065 |
Dennis Wayne Hope v. Todd Harris, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review mental-health physical-health prison-conditions prisoner-rights review-procedures solitary-confinement |
Whether decades of solitary confinement can, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment, as at least five circuits have held, or whether s… |
| 21-7023 |
Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
DOES THE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MRS. RAMBO CONSTITUTE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT IN VIOLATION OF HIS EIGHTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS? |
| 21-1021 |
Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (4) |
adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty. |
| 21-1016 |
Andrew Huy Chrostowski v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargaining psychiatric-examination right-to-present-defense |
A. Did trial counsel's failure to make a constitutionally adequate inquiry into viable defenses deprive the petitioner of his right to present 'full a… |
| 21-6656 |
Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection guilty-plea plea-agreement right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing-bias |
Whether a sentence based on racial and ethnic bias can be appealed pursuant to the Constitutional rights to due process and equal protection of the la… |
| 21-6632 |
Charles Dalton Shoemake v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exemplary-prison-record juvenile-sentencing life-with-parole proportionality rehabilitation |
Given his exemplary prison record and demonstrated rehabilitation, whether Charles Dalton Shoemake's life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he … |
| 21-6531 |
Billy Mack Nichols, Jr. v. Gary Kerstein, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment equal-protection medical-care medical-negligence summary-judgment |
1) Whether the lower courts were wrong for not seeking out, or for not causing the medical doctor, defendant, to seek out the cause for my Central Dia… |
| 21-6504 |
Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment precedent-interpretation prison-conditions prison-safety prisoner-rights sexual-assault |
(1) Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized … |
| 21-6473 |
Michael Stumph v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
Appellate-Review Cruel-and-Unusual-Punishment Due-Process eighth-amendment Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment Procedural-Due-Process sentencing-discretion |
Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2953.08(D)(3) violates the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United State… |
| 21-6495 |
Pedro J. Amaro v. New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion prison-conditions procedural-fairness standing summary-dismissal |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, under the "abuse of discretion" standard of review, should have reversed the district court's judgment sum… |
| 21-6430 |
Michael Cardora Roberson v. Joe Morgan, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process section-1983 serious-medical-needs under-color-of-state-law |
Section 1983 Lawsuits
requlation, custom or usage, of any state or Territory, or
the District of Columbia subjects, or causes to be subjeeted. any cit… |
| 21-6378 |
Severo Garcia-Meza v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights compassionate-release cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process immigration-law incarceration ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing |
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| 21-6293 |
Roy Bolinger v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel victim-allocution |
1. Bolinger raised an ineffective assistance of counsel claim
on direct appeal. The Texas court of appeals concluded that,
without counsel's explain… |
| 21-6279 |
Jquan Leearthur McInnis v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether sentencing a juvenile to two consecutive homicide sentences of life-with-the possibility-of-release after thirty years, the functional equival… |
| 21-6237 |
Glenn C. Damond v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-offenders life-without-parole non-homicide-offenses |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6204 |
Antonio A. Tankes v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment free-speech retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6160 |
Dennis Dean Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-reform cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-step-act prior-convictions retroactive-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-changes |
1) Has the Eleventh Amendment barred the federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over this case where the state has been sued in federal court to … |
| 21-6093 |
Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karl Hoffmann, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-treatment summary-judgment wanton-suffering |
Did the District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the legal presidents that 46 days of severe "unnecessary inflict of wanton pain… |
| 21-6102 |
Anthony B. Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury-indictment jury-instructions sentencing |
Does the absence of a specific unanimity instruction at trial require both distribution of Pcp and accompanying 924.lis count be vacated
Does a convi… |
| 21-5944 |
Casey Ray Culp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment reform sentencing |
1. Whether a guideline sentence of seventy-five months imprisonment violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the c… |
| 21-5860 |
Antonio Franklin v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-process cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection final-judgment-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel judicial-dereliction |
1. Though completely forsaken by the protections of the Sixth Amendment by the time
ive at the federal appellate courts, does either the Eighth or sta… |
| 21-5825 |
Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidence expert-witness mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court error to akfirm the trial Coust's suling where the trial Court was convinced by the Sthte's 'thired-party gui… |
| 21-5746 |
In Re Conghau Huu To |
|
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court-procedure due-process federal-review gatekeeping habeas-corpus judicial-integrity newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-399 |
Chester Lee Reneau v. Mary Cardinas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-negligence prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner's to the "unnecessary and wanton" infliction of pain? And, does the Constitution … |
| 21-5648 |
O. B. Davis, Jr. v. Johnny Sumlin, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel nolo-contendere prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review witness-testimony |
Whether the Court's adjudication of this case ensue from a decision that was to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established law as… |
| 21-5513 |
Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing |
Question 1:
What must a Defendant show in order to demonstrate an Eighth Amendment violation where
Petitioner was sentenced to in essence life for pos… |
| 21-5391 |
Jermontae Moss v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment family-violence felony-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Does a court violate Miller when it refuses to consider childhood trauma as mitigating when sentencing a child to life without parole? |
| 21-5407 |
Robin Rick Manning v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama proportionality-review roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. THE 4 TO 3 MAJORITY DECISION OF HE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FLOUTED U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT i .e. THE EVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY ON PROPORTIO… |
| 21-5164 |
Larry G. Coker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process illegal-indictment sentencing sex-offender-registration |
(A) That Judge Hili re-sentenced Coker to 25 years on uct. 2008/ which was 5 tiroes the amount aiioweo dv iaw/ cruei and unusual punishment/ violated … |
| 21-5165 |
Robert Allen Custard v. Scott Crow, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment double-jeopardy due-process imprisonment legal-detention multiple-punishments united-states-constitution |
Because -as admitted by both lower Courts appealled from (wDOK
and 1oth Cir.)i.e., Please see both Federal [and Oklahoma state]
Qrders @ APPENDIX A-D,… |
| 21-62 |
Paul Poupart v. Louisiana, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
collateral-review constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court retrospective state-collateral-review |
Has the State of Louisiana and its Judicial Officers created and/or imposed an ex post facto law violating the Petitioner's federal due process rights… |
| 21-5108 |
Victor Willis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8375 |
Luisa M. Liberto, et al. v. Geisinger Hospital, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination eighth-amendment harassment title-vii viii-amendment wrongful-termination |
Due to his intellectual disabilities, Jeffrey Liberto was banned from his volunteering
position at Geisinger Hospital, without explanation, and preve… |
| 20-8224 |
Don Wayne Basey v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-division criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto |
WILL THE "SANCTION" PENDING HINDER PETITIONER FROM "EXERCISING" PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS PRISON OFFICIALS INCLUDED HAVE PLACED PETITIONER AG… |
| 20-8171 |
Terry L. Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether fraud, false and misleading statements in arrest & extradition warrant affidavit - irrespective of the subsequent indictment in this case -… |
| 20-8128 |
Teddy Ogle v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether fraud, false and misleading statements in arrest & extradition warrant affidavit - irrespective of the subsequent indictment in this case -… |
| 20-8062 |
Erold Martin Panopio v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing sentencing-reform supervised-release youthful-offender youthful-offenders |
I. WHETHER A NEAR TWENTY YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOLLOWED BY A FIFTEEN YEAR TERM OF SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER SUCH AS PANOPIO VIOLATES T… |
| 20-8043 |
Carl Wayne Buntion v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty deterrence eighth-amendment retribution |
If neither of the two purposes this Court has deemed to be a legitimate purpose for the death penalty —i.e. , retribution and deterrence— would be ser… |
| 20-8048 |
James Terry Colley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-scheme |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of our
statute's aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was es… |
| 20-7803 |
Jonathan S. Hall v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review takings |
All Federal and State laws are predicated on the Constitution. If laws are unconstitutional or illegal they are void. If sentenced under said law is s… |
| 20-7763 |
Brian David Hill v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus indecent-exposure procedural-defect state-custody supervised-release |
Where the Virginia Supreme Court didn't think that the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus should apply to the case of Brian David Hill being convicted… |
| 20-7713 |
Anthony Keenan Sharp v. Lawrence Long, Judge, Second Judicial Circuit Court of South Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fair-trial freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-search-and-seizure |
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| 20-7687 |
Ronald James Hamilton, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence fingerprint-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct punishment-trial witness-testimony |
I. Did the trial prosecutors deny Mr. Hamilton Due Process by failing to disclose exculpatory fingerprint comparison results relevant to an extraneous… |
| 20-1401 |
James Dennis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct |
A. Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor … |
| 20-7637 |
Derrick Gregory James v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corrections-department cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing |
Can A Stale Corrections Arbitrarily Change A Defendant 's Prison Sentence
Nearly Two Decades Later, Even After Having Initionaliy Structured Said Cou… |
| 20-7578 |
Valentin Spataru v. Rick Ramsay, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment detention-conditions due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-dismissal official-conspiracy standing |
1. Whether the Courts may or may not dismiss an Appeal and Motion to Proceed In Forma Pauperis on Appeal when the Appellant has not paid the docket fe… |
| 20-7561 |
Melissa Pocopanni v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intent-to-commit-murder juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment second-degree-murder |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a nineteen-year-old defendant convicted as a principal to second-degree m… |
| 20-1336 |
Denis Quinette v. Dilmus Reed, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fourth-amendment inmate-abuse qualified-immunity supervisory-liability |
Petitioner Denis Quinette was violently attacked by a jailer at the Cobb County Jail who had a terrifying history of violence and inmate abuse.1 Despi… |
| 20-7516 |
Josue Portillo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing |
Absent proof of incorrigibility, can a district court sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating in a exec… |
| 20-7479 |
Benjamin Velayo v. Cheryl Fox, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness rational-understanding reasons-for-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7435 |
Steven G. Knickerbocker v. Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process evidence-destruction excessive-force federal-crime judicial-misconduct law-enforcement-misconduct medical-care |
VIOLATING Federal law, then sever beating Knickerbocker in a cell, by Sgt Wilson and 6 deputies, in Outagamie jail. Judge Vincent R. Biskupic had me b… |
| 20-1236 |
Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 |
A. Is Anderson is being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because Va. C… |
| 20-7342 |
In Re Christopher Vigliotti |
|
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment covid-19 covid-19-risk cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions |
SHOULD THE COURT ISSUE AN EMERGENCY WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS REQUIRING RESPONDENT'S TO RELEASE PETITIONER DUE TO THE FACT COVID-19 AND ITS VARIANTS PRESE… |
| 20-7252 |
John Raymond Travis v. California |
California |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment jury-instructions mitigating-factors sixth-amendment |
1. May a trial court, consistent with the requirements of the federal Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and/or Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of a fundamentally f… |
| 20-7238 |
Alberto Julio Garcia v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process dusky-standard eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency pretrial-proceedings restorative-treatment |
Does Mississippi's "presumption of competency" violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to all… |
| 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… |
| 20-7151 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Clifton Harrold, Sheriff, Lane County, Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
bail civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel speedy-trial state-court-review |
Did the V.S. Coust of Appeals for the Ninth Grcuit err when it denied the certificate of appealibility whereas there were in-set before the istrict co… |
| 20-7127 |
Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens bivens-action civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment federal-prisoner federal-prisons injunctive-relief municipal-liability standing |
1. Does Ziglar V Abbasi, 582 US_
137 S Ct
198 L Ed 2d
290 (2017) in deciding a private right of action under
Bivens, apply to a Federal Prisoner held … |
| 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… |
| 20-941 |
Gregory Atkins, et al. v. Kenneth Williams, Medical Director, Tennessee Department of Correction |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment injunctive-relief lack-of-funds official-capacity prison-conditions subjective-component |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, including deliberate indifference to a convicted prisoner's serious medical needs and ot… |
| 20-6846 |
Tyrone Campbell v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment standing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6849 |
Casey Rafael Tyler v. Katy Poole, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process health-safety inmate-rights institutional-policy prison-conditions |
DOES LAWFUL IMPRISONMENT IMPOSE A LEGAL
Duty om the prisoner to try surviving
'~The General Population ^ so that he can oe
Lawfully ordered 'to go 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? |
| 20-6626 |
Ihab Masalmani v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-hearing |
I. Whether the government must bear the burden of proof at a Miller hearing that a juvenile is irreparably corrupt, consistent with juveniles' rights … |
| 20-6534 |
Deverick Scott v. Rory Griffin, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment grievances inmate-rights medical-malpractice medical-treatment policy |
1. Is "A.D.C. ", Correct Care Solutions Medical policy unconstitutional to Scott, and all other inmates in A.D.C. when Dr. Dove refuse to refill and r… |
| 20-6419 |
Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles |
Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.… |
| 20-6393 |
Todd C. Hughes v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-motion sexual-predator |
Did the Florida Second District Court of Appeal and the Florida Sixth Judicial Circuit violate the Petitioner's and like situated inmates, rights unde… |
| 20-6396 |
Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-review jury-finding juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review.
2. Whether a judge's decis… |
| 20-6331 |
Raphael Dimenick Sam v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
WHETHER OR NOT THE LOWER COURT ERRED AND ABUSED HIS DISCRETION THE TRIAL COURT REVERSIBLY ERRED FOR ALLOWING "VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AND VICTIM IMPAC… |
| 20-665 |
Damon B. Cook v. George M. Galaza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt rule-60(b)(6) sentencing |
1.) WhetheR The PetitioNeR DAMON COOk Has Made of A Substantial Showing The DeNial ConstitutioNAL RighT 28 USC 2253(C)(2) IN order To ObtaiN A CertiFi… |
| 20-6240 |
Kyle Brandon Richards v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aspergers-syndrome cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health self-representation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality |
(1) MR RICHARDS WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO SELF REPRESENTATION BY THE TRIAL COURTS SUMMARY DENIAL OF HIS TIMELY REQUEST TO GO PRO SE… |
| 20-6134 |
Adam Alfredo Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment felon-in-possession sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Was a maximum ten year sentence above the guidelines of 70 to 87 months' imprisonment for Felon in Possession of a Firearm substantively unreasonable,… |
| 20-6116 |
Terry Joseph Wernicke, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder juvenile-offender life-sentence parole |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6085 |
Celso Yanez v. California |
California |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse |
Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,… |
| 20-6060 |
Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing |
1. Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State , 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 20-6000 |
Sara G. Kielly v. New York |
New York |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-conditions conviction-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-treatment sentencing |
1.5 a defendant required, in light of well-established facts, to explicitly state a plea agreement's constitutional conditions, and treatment in priso… |
| 20-5938 |
Robert B. Wister v. Donald R. White, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process elder-abuse equal-protection federal-statute petition-of-grievances |
Abject refusal of a series of courts to read and give credibility to Appellant's brief citing violations of statutes by those holding office. County A… |
| 20-5892 |
Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law |
1. DOES THE EIGHT AMENDMENT PROTECTION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT PROHIBIT A STATE FROM IMPOSING A PRISON SENTENCE THAT EXCEEDS THE MAXIMUM … |
| 20-5893 |
Jonnie Ravon v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole manifest-injustice sentencing violent-offenses |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 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… |
| 20-5845 |
Deverick Scott v. Danny Burl, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment administrative-grievance civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process false-disciplinary first-amendment prisoner-rights property-rights retaliation |
1. If the A.D.C. authorizes a prisoner to have his personal property in Isolation Confinement by giving to him on his 48hr relief after he served 30 d… |
| 20-5677 |
In Re Jimmy Wren |
|
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus motion-to-rehear sentencing sentencing-hearing successive-habeas-corpus |
1. Whether 28, §2244, U.S.C. deprives similar situated litigants of due process of law?
2. Whether the enforcement of 28, §2244, U.S.C., subjects sim… |
| 20-5572 |
Michael Aaron Witkin v. Mariana Lotersztain, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment expert-testimony medical-care prison-conditions summary-judgment |
The Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain. Prison officials violate the… |
| 20-5491 |
M. C. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment delinquent-acts due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment juvenile-detention juvenile-justice punishment |
1. Is a child imprisoned for delinquent acts "punished" within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-5474 |
Montez L. Clayton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
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| 20-5450 |
Darnell Perkins Washington v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment florida-constitution relief standing |
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| 20-189 |
Robert Barnes v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Missouri |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gateway-claim habeas |
Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner had established a gate-way claim of actual innocence so that his defaulted constitution… |
| 20-5407 |
Dominique Mack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest |
1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this
Court's jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against int… |
| 20-180 |
Matthew William George v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech post-commitment probation-restrictions |
A. Does a Virginia Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's post commitment First Amendment Rights?
B. Can a Virginia Court subject a def… |
| 20-5399 |
Anthony Leon Latimer, aka Gerrald Smith v. Ben Jones, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
911-caller civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process emergency-provision false-imprisonment good-samaritan good-samaritan-law law-enforcement-immunity |
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During the TAA/ESTI&ATIO/V PHASE 5 did d&fertdart-ffsgt. Bet1 Jones) Violate the petitioner… |
| 20-5380 |
Antonio Deshawn Pitt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-health proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court's statutory obligation to consider the "history and circumstances" of a criminal defendant and to refrain from imposing a sen… |
| 20-5364 |
John S. Kaminski v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights class-action cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions standing |
1. Are the defendants-SEMPLE as former Commissioner of D.O.C. (now COOK) immune from injunctive and/or declaratory |
| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-5243 |
Warren K. Henness v. Mike DeWine, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)IFP |
alternative-methods cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-aid-in-dying |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically permits the degree of pain caused by hanging—including sensations of drowning and suffocation—or whether… |
| 20-5178 |
Jimmy Fernetus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court eighth-amendment executive-branch executive-power legislative-branch legislative-power minimum-mandatory-sentence separation-of-powers |
1. Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum … |
| 20-5168 |
James Wilson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process execution-methods lethal-injection |
IF PETITIONER'S NAME IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE BODY OF THE INDICTMENT? |
| 20-5015 |
James Latron Sumter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE
DISTRICT COURT'S RULING NOT ALLOWING SUMTER TO WITHDRAW
HIS GUILTY PLEA?
2. WHETHER THE APPELLA… |
| 19-8927 |
Alfred Brian Mitchell v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-culpability cognitive-science constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-aggravator standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Given this Court's prior ruling that the text of Oklahoma's "heinous, atrocious, or cruel" death-penalty aggravator is unconstitutionally vague, is… |
| 19-8849 |
Linda Pedroza v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing parole proportionality second-degree-homicide sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position … |
| 19-8772 |
Mario Torres v. Mike Hansen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 brady-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment discovery discovery-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial |
Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant, the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surr… |
| 19-8728 |
Joshua Harrell v. California |
California |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness rational-understanding |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8666 |
Louis Mayes v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection life-without-parole sentencing |
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| 19-1350 |
Darius Ishun Green v. Bradley Hooks, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate personal-characteristics prison prisoner-rights risk-of-harm summary-judgment |
1. Under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), is a court precluded from granting summary judgment to defendants where there is evidence of an obvio… |
| 19-8573 |
David Konepachit v. California |
California |
2020-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
DOES THE SENATE BILL 1393 INHERENTLY DEPRIVE THE PETITIONER FROM EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS BECAUSE OF THE AMELIORATIVE STATUTE THAT 1893 AMENDS, LA… |
| 19-8551 |
Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing |
Does a Life sentence., without right to parole, upon a Ninteen year old for killing committed by another cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of… |
| 19-8472 |
Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure |
1. Did the tral Count vio late petitroverts 5thybthiand i4th arendnvent rights, When it made a Judieial chetermunation,as tothe dangerous nature eleme… |
| 19-8462 |
Juan F. Perez v. Julie L. Jones, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-review legal-expertise legal-filing procedural-error standing |
Petitioner/Plaintiffs Federal skill and knowledge in the science of jurisprudence?
(2) IF a statute requires the placement of "Blind Spot" safety Mea… |
| 19-8447 |
Jeanette D. Davis v. Renee Thomas, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection excessive-force grievance-interference grievance-process |
1. Defendant Officer Renee Thomas inflicted crule an unusal punishnent when she excessively sprayed me with Chemical Agent directly in t^e eyes while … |
| 19-1261 |
Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-30 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (4) |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing |
Respondents are prison officials who deliberately left Petitioner Trent Taylor naked for six days in two filthy cells; the first cell was covered from… |
| 19-8203 |
Rashan J. Hunt v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement repeat-offender repeat-violent-offender sentencing sixth-amendment |
FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW: WAS PETITIONER'S PLEA AGREEMENT VIOLATED, AND HIS CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS VIOLATED, WHEN THE TRIAL… |
| 19-8166 |
Anthony Williams v. Muhammad Naji, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process health-care hepatitis-c imminent-danger medical-neglect prison prison-healthcare standing |
1. DID THE COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS- MADE BY THE U.S.
DISTRICT COURT REGARDING IMMINENT DANGER. AND DOES HEPATITIS-C CREATE
I… |
| 19-1191 |
Ohio v. Shawn Ford |
Ohio |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability standing state-standards supreme-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
What is the test for determining whether someone is "intellectually disabled" for purposes of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-8132 |
Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County |
Illinois |
2020-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
THE HONORABLE JUDGE MICHAEL BALD IMPROPERLY IMPOSED CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES WHEN CONCURRENT SENTENCES ARE MANDATED BY THE STATUTE, PETITIONER WAS FOUND … |
| 19-1167 |
Bradley William Kennedy v. Stephen Morris, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 8th-amendment AEDPA anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of- cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-trial-errors due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence statute-of-limitations trial-errors |
Whether Bradley Kennedy's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is time barred under the one-year statute of limitations set forth in the anti-terroris… |
| 19-8060 |
John Doe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights court-disclosure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment harassment medical-history medical-privacy prisoner-rights privacy |
1. Should a Convicted Felon be Subject to Additional Harassment
Above and Beyond Their Prison-Sentence Due to a Court's
Disclosure of Their Medical H… |
| 19-8076 |
Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement |
Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat… |
| 19-8084 |
Christopher Young v. Rehka Halligan |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment standing |
1. Whether continuous persistence in a course of treatment known to be
ineffective through a petitioner's complaints, while knowing or should've
kno… |
| 19-7951 |
Rashad Taylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence miller-v-alabama |
1. Does imposition of a mandatory sentence of forty years on a juvenile convicted of a homicide -a sentence imposed pursuant to a statutory scheme tha… |
| 19-7876 |
Aaron Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did an unconstitutional "objective risk of bias," Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S. Ct. 1899, 1905 (2016), or "probability of actual bias on the par… |
| 19-7827 |
Terry O'Nell Hall v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-trial cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidentiary-inconsistency fundamental-fairness inconsistent-testimony right-to-fair-trial sentencing-disparity victim-testimony witness-testimony |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DECIDE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TD DUE P WAS NOT VIOLATED, WHERE THE VICTIM TESTIFIED ONE WAY DURING HIS TRIAL AND THEN TEST… |
| 19-7626 |
Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-02-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences due-process eighth-amendment non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Is sentencing a defendant to a de facto life sentence for non-violent offenses fall within a violation of the eight amendment right of cruel and unusu… |
| 19-7594 |
Felix Lopez-Cabrera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment age-of-culpability age-of-majority criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-sentences national-consensus neuroscience |
Whether Supreme Court jurisprudence finding mandatory life sentences for juveniles cruel and unusual under the Eight Amendment, and non-mandatory life… |
| 19-7565 |
Tyree Wright v. S. Alvarez, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference diagnostic-imaging due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights medical-care medical-records prison-healthcare qualified-immunity |
1. While you are incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), how are you supposed to notify Medical of your prior medical history/he… |
| 19-7418 |
Jody Gifford v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole proportionality resentencing |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 19-7437 |
Tony Sparks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which was made retroac… |
| 19-7369 |
David Keen v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
atkins-ruling atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction standing |
Does the Constitution permit Tennessee to evade the mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) by legislative inaction and judicial abdication… |
| 19-7284 |
Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions |
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has a demonstrable, decades-long history of substituting in word and deed a "no evidence" standard for the "insufficien… |
| 19-7252 |
Clarence Joseph Jason v. Robert Tanner, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force inmate-safety prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
1). Whether a Prison "Too ontyo\ Poli [te ot O woon Oviso of fi ta 9 ya t\n Ve oi \i
2). What evidence must be adduced showing a prison officials "kn… |
| 19-7140 |
Antonio Medrano Ortiz v. George T. Solomon, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-force judicial-review medical-care medical-rule standing statute-of-limitations statutory-limitations |
My OriginAl ComplAinT As Time- barved
STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS .
2. Whether DR. MckeNzie's deli berATe INdiFFereNce
To my Serious Medical Needs Violat… |
| 19-7036 |
Jeremy L. Dale v. Anthony Agresta, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-damages cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Y MR. depriveration of Rigt's ?
(SecONd TSSUE $1983, persons liable ndto $ 1983 dAmAgES
WAs itUuncnstitio oeni f mdcal d M D tmutoA
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DENiaM2.DAlE… |
| 19-6976 |
James Clayton Johnson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona capital-punishment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings meaningful-opportunity standing |
Does a court deprive a capital defendant of his due process right to a meaningful opportunity to be heard when the defendant challenges the constituti… |
| 19-6915 |
Andrew Lee Thompson, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
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j^seJ Qrs c,… |
| 19-6893 |
Michael Wayne Nelson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process patent prison-conditions retaliation standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6844 |
Fabian Santiago v. Arthur F. Hill, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County |
Illinois |
2019-12-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-adjudication ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-representation right-to-counsel |
A.) The Petitioner presents the inquiry into the U.S.Ct, whether the refusal of the legftl rep
resentative (sic) of the ftetitioner durirg arraignment… |
| 19-6870 |
Kenny Brown v. Mental Health Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6830 |
Don Emmery Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines |
Was petitioner subjective to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel
in a criminal matter?1)
Was petitioner subjective to cruel and unusual p… |
| 19-697 |
James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling |
A divided panel of the Tenth Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated a panel opinion that reversed a capital sentence on the ground that the sentence rested… |
| 19-6777 |
Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure |
HAS THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT IMPLEMENTED PRATICES FOR
FLORIDN'S JUDIUAL SYSTEM THAT CONTRADICTS THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONS
T LTH AND IT AMENOMENT RGHIS F… |
| 19-6649 |
Alfred L. Brooks v. Dean Borders, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment dismissed-allegations double-jeopardy due-process extrajudicial-proceeding extrajudicial-proceedings parole parole-hearing plea-agreement |
1) Can state District Attorney 's Office and/or California Board of Parole Hearings utilize
Parole Consideration Hearings as extrajudicial proceeding… |
| 19-6637 |
Gregory Cooper v. Katy Poole, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-counsel judicial-discretion right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings |
Can a defendant be stoped from Confronting his
accusers and witnesses with o ther testimony
when the sth Amendment to the li.s. Const. Provides
for Du… |
| 19-6583 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits |
I. What is the proper analysis to determine whether there is a threshold showing of an inference of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment cl… |
| 19-6545 |
Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture |
1. Am I able to pursue relief under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 against the Defendants/Respondents for pre-trial Torture?
2. Am I able to pursue relief under … |
| 19-6518 |
Eric Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme |
Mr. Bugie filed a section lugo-ill ca petition to corfense and ane appled Miller to an 18-year old. Mr. Burgse sk this court to anwer whether or not t… |
| 19-6416 |
Jurijus Kadamovas v. John F. Caraway, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-discretion administrative-law bureau-of-prisons civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-conditions prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing torture-prevention |
1) WHETHER THE FEDERAL AGENT ROW (PARTY WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ASTHMA CAN BE TORTURED IN CUSTODY OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS BY EXPOSURE TO OLEORESI… |
| 19-6329 |
Jackie Lee Boyd v. Carol Monroe, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-treatment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment incarceration medical-care prison-conditions |
(1) Is a constitutional right to be free of the wanton infliction of
sei pain rendered void upon incarceration?
(2) Is the denial of life sustaining … |
| 19-6254 |
Christopher T. Shanahan v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mitigating-factors parole parole-eligibility |
1. Does a juvenile life sentence, with parole eligibility after a lengthy term for years, in a state with no guarantee that the mitigating qualities o… |
| 19-6260 |
Craig Cross v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process juvenile-sentencing precedent retroactivity state-supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S. Ct. 2011, 176 L. Ed. 2d 825 (2010), Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 … |
| 19-6235 |
Scott Thomas Erskine v. California |
California |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity narrowing-requirement sentencing |
I.
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth,
Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States
Constitution by failing to… |
| 19-6191 |
K. N., et ux. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services |
Montana |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process fifth-amendment freedom-of-religion parental-rights religious-discrimination self-incrimination state-action state-overreach |
1. Did the state's demands that the parents admit guilt violate their Constitutional rights under the 5th Amendment?
Note: Both the Treatment Plan an… |
| 19-443 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Philip S. Gutierrez, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts bivens bivens-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines obstruction-of-justice vexatious-litigant |
A Bivens case allows a private individual to seek damages from an individual federal officer for unconstitutional conduct (e.g. 8th Amendment). Ziglar… |
| 19-6130 |
George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6121 |
In Re Matthew Lee Staszak |
|
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct |
SHOULD THIS SUPREME COURT ISSUE THE WRIT OF MANDAMUS
TO THE LOWER U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN ORDER TO COMPEL THE DISTRICT
COURT TO EXERCISE ITS ARTICLE II… |
| 19-6092 |
Jonothan E. Prather v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana petition-timeliness retroactivity timeliness |
I - The lower courts and the respondents claim that the Petitioner's petition is
untimely and should be dismissed as such.
II - The lower courts and … |
| 19-6093 |
In Re Barbara Stone, et al. |
|
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process elder-abuse equal-protection habeas-corpus retaliation state-detention unlawful-detention vulnerable-adults |
I. The facts herein irrefutably demonstrate:
A. Willful violation of protected rights under the Constitution to life, liberty, property, and the pursu… |
| 19-5988 |
Tyrone Chalmers v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons |
Where a petitioner establishes uncontested proof that despite effort he repeated the first grade and was enrolled in special education in the second g… |
| 19-5996 |
Michael J. W. Potter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
Whether entry of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment violated Appellant's rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 19-5916 |
Juan Matias Torres v. Ralph M. Diaz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process free-speech habeas-corpus intellectual-disability patent standing takings |
1. IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON ALL HIS AMENDED CLAIMS AND ORIGINAL CLAIMS?
a. Did The Court Violate Defendant's 5th, … |
| 19-5878 |
Darries Leon Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice?
2. Whether Petiti… |
| 19-5898 |
Danny Howell v. Duane Southerland, et al. |
Tennessee |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions racial-discrimination standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5877 |
Damion D. Faulkner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process |
Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that c… |
| 19-5839 |
Randall Wayne Mays v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty delusions due-process eighth-amendment ford-hearing junk-science lay-stereotypes mental-competency mental-illness panetti-v-quarterman |
1. May a state court rely on junk science and lay stereotypes of the severely mentally ill to adjudicate a Ford claim ?
2. If an inmate acknowledges … |
| 19-298 |
Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law |
In the context of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), which allows a n application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody under a state -court … |
| 19-5800 |
Darren Denson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Miscondvet when they deried Denson of his dve process rights by witthholding evidence before the econd trial that justifies post-conviction velief In … |
| 19-5762 |
Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 19-264 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Lydell Marcus White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences |
Respondent received a 67-year non-mandatory sentence 25 years ago, when he was 15 years old, for the murder of an elderly couple.
Does the Eighth Ame… |
| 19-5739 |
Duane Pope v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Nebraska |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto privileges-and-immunities separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-doctrine |
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent affirmation of the "separate sovereigns"
, 139 S.Ct. 1960 (2019), raises U.S. doctrine in Gamble v. U.S. ,
a number of… |
| 19-5750 |
Felix A. Okafor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S 3167 MONTH SENTENCE IMPOSED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT'S MISINTERPRETATION OF THE STACKING PROVISIONS OF 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A)(i)… |
| 19-5752 |
Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders |
1. Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deter
ring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long
sentences run afoul of the 8t… |
| 19-247 |
City of Boise, Idaho v. Robert Martin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Amici (20)Relisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness local-government-powers local-government-regulation public-camping public-health-and-safety |
Like many cities and towns across the country, the City of Boise, Idaho regulates camping and sleeping in public spaces to ensure that these areas rem… |
| 19-250 |
Oklahoma v. Jesse Allen Johnson |
Oklahoma |
2019-08-26 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment jury-factfinding jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment require that the individualized sentencing proceeding necessary to impose a life-without-parole sentence upon a juvenile homi… |
| 19-5672 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability procedural-obstacles |
Gary Ray Bowles is an intellectually disabled man on Florida's death row. Despite this Court's holding in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002)… |
| 19-5622 |
Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing |
1. This Court should consider whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory … |
| 19-5587 |
In Re Levar Lee Spence |
|
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment federal-courts federal-habeas-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction liberty-rights |
1.) Whether the courts can refuse and/or feign review of habeas corpus claims asserting constitutional violations, would warrant habeas corpus relief?… |
| 19-195 |
Robert Ryan Snyder v. California |
California |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deprivation-of-necessities due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-deference lockdown lockdown-procedures prison-conditions retaliation |
1. Has California 's justice system forgotten what
was taught by this Court 's holding in Wilson v. Seiter
[501 U.S. 294 (1991)]. (Regarding 8th Ame… |
| 19-5558 |
Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment |
was the defendonts conduct de\ therately ,Pucposely Knowing nd cbjecluely yu intera' in Respect to Vv ialating Johnson rcHottonal Vio S Fourteen 1 Ame… |
| 19-5508 |
Carlin U. Powell v. Medical Department Cuyahoga County Correctional Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment ableism ambleism cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interstate-agreement-on-detainers medical-neglect |
(I) Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County
Correctional Center et al., violate Plaintiff-Appellant
Carlin U. Powell 's VIII, XIV Amendments to … |
| 19-5511 |
Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Are inccrcerated plaintiffs m civil coses in corcercted fro se U.S. Distriet Cout cnfairl trected, cadlar in prejedd agoinst, becaule they ore not giv… |
| 19-5519 |
Rubin R. Weeks v. Jason Lewis, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect liberty-interest parole-revocation state-court-review state-jurisdiction void-judgment |
(1).Does Petitioner have the Fundamental Rights to be free from the Missouri State Court's void judgment that has him restrained of liberty ?
(2). Do… |
| 19-5528 |
Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos… |
| 19-5485 |
Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent |
The Decision Of The
Arizona Supreme Court
Violates Brown -v- Plata
131 S. Ct. 1910(2011) |
| 19-5435 |
Steven Eason v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process jurisdiction sexual-battery subject-matter-jurisdiction |
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Battery , the Me Hod! of Achieving Serun] Penetratan is ir… |
| 19-5302 |
Bryant Keith Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages due-process free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
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FLORIDA
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STATE COURT
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Conshitution Amendment 6,
U.S.C.
CON STITUTION ERROR,
under plain errot
Jopy
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Right … |
| 19-5244 |
Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness |
Does the Prosecutor assessment of Probable cause Standing alone meet the requirements of the Fourth Amendment and is it enough to Justify Pending tria… |
| 19-91 |
Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen |
Missouri |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
|
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-relief juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole parole-eligibility |
Under the Eighth Amendment, may a State sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison und… |
| 19-5112 |
Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses |
Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 19-5060 |
Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction |
First Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing |
1: Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons abilities t… |
| 19-5030 |
Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 18-1585 |
Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm |
1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 18-1586 |
Scott Lynn Gibson, aka Vanessa Lynn v. Brian Collier, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment individualized-medical-evaluation life-threatening-medical-need life-threatening-need medical-treatment new-treatment prison-healthcare prisoner-rights transgender-rights universal-medical-acceptance |
1. Whether an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a prisoner's lifethreatening medical need can be disposed of without any individua… |
| 18-1572 |
Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing |
Does a mandatory minimum Life Sentence for one who is convicted under The Guilty-But-Mentally-Ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-9761 |
John Givens v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-liability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder irrebuttable-presumption mental-state proximate-cause third-party-liability |
Whether Illinois' proximate cause theory of liability for felony murder, which allows a criminal defendant to be convicted of felony murder when the d… |
| 18-9757 |
Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Patricia Blackwell Scurlock, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fraud kidnapping technology-abuse civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process human-rights implant-technology justice-system kidnapping standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9649 |
Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process free-exercise halal-diet prison religious-freedom rluipa substantial-burden |
Whether RLUIPA prohibits the Defendants from placing a substantial burden upon Petitioner's religious exercise by feeding non-traditional inedible foo… |
| 18-9654 |
Carl Javan Ross v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process public-trial public-trial-rights self-incrimination speedy-trial |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9634 |
Destyn David Frederick v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-challenge right-to-counsel sentencing |
ISSUE NO ONE AND TWO whether the United States District court and the Fifth Circuit court of appeals have denied Petitioner his rights to challenge th… |
| 18-9644 |
Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts |
1) Does the Americans with Disabities Act (ADA) require State Trial Courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?
2)… |
| 18-9568 |
Roderick Mullins v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process imprisonment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment life-sentence sentencing sentencing-scheme state-constitution |
Does the Florida "Life Means Life" sentence scheme violate the State Constitution's ban on indefinite imprisonment and the 14th Amendment Due Process … |
| 18-9576 |
Alvin Weekly v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence blockburger-v-united-states cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing-review |
1. Does the Court of Appeals commit clear error when declining to hear a defendant's claim of serving an unlawful sentence in violation of the Constit… |
| 18-9549 |
Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
A. IS PETITIONER'S TWENTY-FIVE YEAR MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE OFFENSE COMMITTED VIOLATING THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED … |
| 18-9492 |
Valentin Spataru v. Rick Ramsay |
Florida |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment battery civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment detention due-process eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement-detention |
Whether 30' transportation to jail in a law-enforcement hyperthermic, "cooking" car is cruel and unusual punishment which the U.S. Const. Amend. VIII … |
| 18-1500 |
Jonsha Bell v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy nonhomicide-offense sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Does the Eighth Amendment forbid an aggregate sentence that exceeds the life expectancy of a juvenile nonhomicide offender? |
| 18-9440 |
Earl Lee Dixie v. Kenneth Harrington, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication-defense mental-health-defense mental-health-evidence specific-intent strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Dixie was convicted of evading pursuing police officers based on an incident where he fled from police during a high speed vehicle chase. At trial, Di… |
| 18-9396 |
Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN HOLDING THAT MR. LONG WAS NOT ENTITLED TO A STAY BECAUSE OF INEXCUSABLE DELAY IN BRINGING HIS L… |
| 18-9361 |
Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9356 |
Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-jurisprudence evolving-standards-of-decency mental-illness |
1. Whether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment and the evolving standards of dece… |
| 18-9267 |
John Loveman Reese v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 18-9274 |
William Lee Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity sentencing-procedure teague-v-lane |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 18-9238 |
Reshaud Todd Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habitual-offender habitual-offender-statute life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-court youthful-adult youthful-offender |
Whether imposition of a mandatory sentence of life without parole under a habitual offender statute violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against … |
| 18-9156 |
Joseph Vincent Sisneros v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9186 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-05-08 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits |
Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14' Amendment and the… |
| 18-9144 |
Delbert Heard v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect inmate-safety prisoner-rights standing substantial-risk |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9052 |
Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment institutional-lighting prison-conditions prisoner-rights sleep-deprivation writ-of-certiorari |
Should this Court grant writ of certiorari where lower courts have no guidance on what level of 24—hour lighting is appropriate in prisons so as not t… |
| 18-8990 |
Raszell Reeder v. E. Wheldon, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compensatory-damages constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-neglect medical-records medical-treatment mental-health prisoner-healthcare |
I have genital herpes. I experience painful ulcers that appears in the open end of sores that are extremely painful. Also, herpetic lesions, systemic … |
| 18-8983 |
Patrick Edwards v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1298 |
Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |
Pursuant to Ala. C. § 13-A-5-47(e)(1975), Alabama previously allowed trial judges to override a jury's vote for a life sentence and, based on new evid… |
| 18-8704 |
Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruet… |
| 18-1267 |
Angela Rene Leeman v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama non-homicide-offenses parole-eligibility parole-restriction proportionality proportionality-review |
1. Whether Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), applies with the equal force to consecutive sentences for non-homicide offenses that work in the agg… |
| 18-8670 |
Demetrius Terrence Frazier v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding jury-sentencing jury-trial retroactive-rule retroactivity sixth-amendment |
1. Does Alabama's insistence that a judge, not a jury, can weigh the mitigating and aggravating factors and sentence a person to death directly confli… |
| 18-1259 |
Brett Jones v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-03-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility sentencing-authority |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc… |
| 18-8611 |
Elicia Bailey v. Jeremy Gasaway |
Texas |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-act criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process family-court family-law harsh-penalties subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Do family courts hold subject-matter jurisdiction to find guilt of a criminal act and subsequently impose harsh penalties without due process in a … |
| 18-1249 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
|
compounding-pharmacy cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pentobarbital |
(1) Has an Alabama death row inmate shown that pentobarbital is "available" to the ADOC where he proves that pentobarbital is easily made by any compo… |
| 18-8546 |
Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CORRECT AN INJUSTICE IN STATE COURT WHERE POST-CONVICTION COUNSEL UNDERMINED CLAIMS, ABUSED THE PROCESS, WASTED JUD… |
| 18-8550 |
Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS BEING UNLAWFULLY RETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT AND HAS THEREFORE… |
| 18-8441 |
Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing |
Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a… |
| 18-8424 |
Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is The Trial Court In Error By Denying The Motion To Quash Based On Errors In The Multiple Offender Charng, Pleading And Proof? Did The Multiple Bill … |
| 18-8343 |
Jose Luis Mattes Baez Carmona Lopez Cordero v. Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitution constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection native-american-rights native-rights treaty-rights |
Did the lower court breach any treaties between the native Taino Indian tribe and the Government of the United States of America, pursuant to Article … |
| 18-8295 |
Raymond Lumsden v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error-doctrine dna-expert due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the trialcourt's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defenses DNA Expert to testify at trial… |
| 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.
… |
| 18-8310 |
Azhar Lal v. B. G. Flores, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages deliberate-indifference due-process medical-treatment prisoner-rights standing |
IF PETITiONER WAS AN INSULIN DEPENDANT DIABETIC
AND THE PRISON DOCTOR HAD ORDERED PETITIONERS EVENING
DIABETES TREATMENT AS: THAT HE MONITOR HIS BLOOD… |
| 18-8253 |
Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief |
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| 18-8196 |
Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement |
Where in pre trial confinement Petitioner was unknowingly
admnistered3 three different mental health psychologica
"twenty nine
medication's and not hi… |
| 18-7916 |
Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether a state court has the right to bar a litigant of having access to the courts?
Whether due process violations toll the state's statute of limi… |
| 18-7789 |
Ashley Richards v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
When a statutory punishment enhancement is found inapplicable to a class of offenses, thereby decreasing the punishment range from 2-10 years to 180 d… |
| 18-7620 |
Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7624 |
Mario Griffin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-law illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-integrity manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice sentence-enhancement sentencing |
Does the sentence imposed constitute an illegal
sentence under federal law and represent a
manifest injustice calling in question the
integrity of … |
| 18-7569 |
Paul William Scott v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
codefendant-comparison constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection sentencing-disparity |
Whether Florida's refusal to consider the disparity between the 15-year prison term of his equal or more culpable codefendant and Scott's death senten… |
| 18-7547 |
Michael Joseph Mulder v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty dementia eighth-amendment intellectual-disability memory-loss |
Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically excludes from the death penalty an individual who, because of a stroke that caused dementia, is functionall… |
| 18-7533 |
Shawn Canada v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. DID CANADA RECEIVE EFFECTIVE ASISTANCE OF COUNSEL
2. WAS THERE AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION TO BRINGING OF CANADA MENKAL HEALHL INJUSTICE DUNNG SENTENUN… |
| 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… |
| 18-7391 |
Gadiel Romero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
I. Is it proper for a sentencing court to apply the substantial 6-level increase to a defendant's offense level contemplated in Section 2A4.1(b)(1) of… |
| 18-7382 |
Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect |
Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth?
Did the Virginia Supreme Court Err in holding th… |
| 18-7365 |
Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing |
1. Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247½/ year minimum violate the Eight Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment?
2. Do… |
| 18-7332 |
James Dellinger v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons |
Where a petitioner establishes uncontested proof that despite effort he never progressed beyond the first grade level and dropped out of third grade a… |
| 18-7295 |
Earnest Barnes v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama National-Consensus parole scientific-evidence |
WHETHER EIGHTH AMENDMENT'S PROTECTION ESTABLISHED IN GRAHAM AND MILLER SHOULD BE EXPANDED BEYOND AGE CUTOFF AT EIGHTEEN TO PROHIBIT MANDATORY LIFE IMP… |
| 18-852 |
Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
GVR |
|
administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements |
Inmates who wish to challenge a method of execution under the Eighth Amendment must plead and prove an alternative method that is "feasible, readily i… |
| 18-7224 |
Jose Alejandro Acuna Valenzuela v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial heightened-reliability impartial-jury juror-bias jury-selection motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-misconduct |
I. Whether the trial court violated Mr. Acuna's constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury, to due process, to heightened reliability, and to … |
| 18-793 |
Marion Quinton Brewster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment different-occasions legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's "different occasions" provision has become overly broad and vague as to constitute cruel… |
| 18-7119 |
Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive?
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in failing to n… |
| 18-7073 |
Todd James Luh v. Fulton State Hospital, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability-discrimination discovery due-process institutional-misconduct involuntary-commitment medical-abuse medical-records retaliation veterans-rights |
Does it serve justice to dismiss my claims when it is clear that testimony will be presented at trial that the defendants have assaulted me themselves… |
| 18-7034 |
Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole |
Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from mandatory life without parole sentences? |
| 18-6906 |
David E. Miller v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
coercion cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment ex-post-facto execution-method lethal-injection waiver waiver-of-rights |
(1) When an inmate alleges that both his original and later-imposed punishments for the same crime violate the Eighth Amendment but the later-imposed … |
| 18-6890 |
In Re Joseph C. Garcia |
|
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process psychological-stress |
1. Whether Joseph Garcia's extended stay on Texas' death row for nearly 16 years has resulted in his suffering additional severe psychological stress … |
| 18-6891 |
Joseph C. Garcia v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-intent cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intent-to-kill mens-rea non-triggerman state-execution |
Whether the Eighth Amendment now forbids a State from executing a person when there is no evidence that he killed or intended to kill another person. |
| 18-6869 |
Mario Andrette McNeill v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-defendant-instructions capital-punishment counsel counsel-decision-making cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment allow a state to give binding force … |
| 18-6877 |
Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-rights retroactivity |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 18-6776 |
Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity state-court |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's
longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized
a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 18-6554 |
Walter Collins v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mandatory-life-sentence opportunity-for-release reasonable-opportunity-for-release |
Whether a mandatory life sentence for a crime committed by a juvenile that does not allow him a reasonable opportunity for release violates the prohib… |
| 18-6530 |
Edmund Zagorski v. Bill Haslam, Governor of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-protections constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-challenges due-process involuntary-waiver method-of-execution procedural-technicalities state-secrecy stewart-v-lagrand |
1. Did Glossip v. Gross, 135 S.Ct. 2726 (2015), modify centuries-old jurisprudence prohibiting involuntary waiver of constitutional protections in the… |
| 18-6520 |
Jesus L. Arnett v. Patrick Covello, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-conviction forged-bills ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sentencing speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights structural-error |
Should Petitioner be granted a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner was obviously and falsely convicted of possessing forged bills, and then g… |
| 18-6528 |
Shaheen Cabbagestalk v. Bryan P. Sterling, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6458 |
Eddie Williams, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process free-speech standing state-action takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6433 |
Robert Norman Smithback v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, constitutional-guarantees cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection farmer-v-brennan prison-conditions prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent |
Issue #1. Whether Texa. Jurisprudence.enforcés constitutional
guarentees, especially and specifically this Court's
Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (19… |
| 18-6367 |
Joel Carter v. Jamie Ayala, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-services medical-treatment precedent prisoner-rights summary-judgment |
I. Did the lower court err in granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents on Petitioner's Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim, by iss… |
| 18-6315 |
David Ivy v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-mechanism roper-v-simmons state-procedure |
Where this Court has declared, "States may not execute anyone in 'the entire category of [intellectually disabled] offenders." Moore v. Texas, 137 S. … |
| 18-6335 |
George Jenkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process first-time-offender non-violent-crime proportionality reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE SENTENCE IMPOSED IS UNREASONABLE
A. Whether a One Hundred Forty-four (144) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug deale… |
| 18-6289 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
and justice from incarceration civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto incarceration justice liberty civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law incarceration justice-system legal-application sentencing |
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| 18-6294 |
Steven Anthony Walcott, Jr. v. Terrebonne Parish Jail Medical Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims medical-conditions medical-treatment prison-conditions standing |
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CDRETitION FOM CUNHACTING A dENAy diB… |
| 18-6238 |
Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-methods execution-protocol feasible-alternative fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection state-secrecy |
1. Where the credited, credible, and unassailable evidence at trial proves with certainty that a lethal injection protocol will inflict severe pain an… |
| 18-6220 |
Anthony Quentin Kelly v. Frank Bishop, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment access access-to-courts civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process food-and-water liberty |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6223 |
Martin Jonassen v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment administrative-procedure cell-conditions civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process facility-design habeas-corpus inmate-safety prison-conditions prison-overcrowding standing |
1.a.Did the ath CiR. err bt Ruling (That the 10-17-17 District Ct. OrdeR Is Not a Final Appealable 'OrdeR.
A,b. Did the ath Cir. And the District Cou… |
| 18-6201 |
Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits |
The criteria in 28 U.S.C.S. §2244(d)(1) is identical to 28 U.S.C.S. §2255(f). The former per this courts holding in MóQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383… |
| 18-6167 |
Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review reliability-of-death-sentence |
1. Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in orde… |
| 18-6058 |
Donald Lee Reeves, III v. California |
California |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial felony-murder insufficient-evidence intent robbery special-circumstance |
I. Whether petitioner's due process right to a fair trial was violated when he was convicted of robbery in Count 4 based upon insufficient evidence th… |
| 18-6027 |
Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing |
Is it permissible under the 8th amendment of the Constitution to impose an adult sentence upon a minor who has been convicted of a non-dangerous, non-… |
| 18-5996 |
Gene Lemay Barris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence |
1.How ion a sentencing Coust sentenct a defeadent cutside of the
Gui delines orainally out lindd in Tue defendents pka @gret moat. Dots
2. Hou Or can… |
| 18-5970 |
Allen D. Gorion v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform |
Whether certiorari should be granted to set forth some guidelines in
determining when a sentence is unreasonable? |
| 18-5958 |
Kevin Wilmot v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
FLonida Violate State Ard Federal
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| 18-5861 |
Danny Lopez Chavez v. Joel Martinez, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
(1) Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cr… |
| 18-5848 |
Darrell Darcell Darby v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional criminal-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions search-and-seizure sentencing standing takings |
[SEE APPENDIX D] WHO IS UNABLE HIMSELFWITH
HOBEOS CORPUS POSTCONUICTION PETI TION TO THE COURTS ).--
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HELP BY ANOTHER INMATE
"W… |
| 18-5764 |
Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) 514 U.S. 499; and Garner v. Jones (U.S.Ga… |
| 18-5714 |
Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Under Our United States Constitution, Amendment VI., Can A Trial Court Posess Subject Matter . Jurisdiction On A Criminal Offense Not Charged Within. … |
| 18-5698 |
Devonte Brown v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing |
Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child… |
| 18-217 |
Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Granted |
Amici (13)Relisted (9) |
collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in concluding—in direct conflict with Virginia's highest court and other courts—that a decision of this Court (Montgomery) … |
| 18-5652 |
Glen Springer v. Benjamin Dale Caple, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-needs prison-conditions |
1. Did Plaintif SufferA EighthAmendment Violation?
Medical Needs?
ex
is Administative Remedies by
the grlevance process
USiNg
When
he only thing that… |
| 18-5669 |
Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing |
Whether, pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the petitioner can be punished with a sentence of life wit… |
| 18-171 |
Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-rights Cruel-and-unusual-punishment Due-process Eighth-amendment First-amendment immunity law-library-access Preliminary-injunction prisoner-rights retaliation section-1983 |
Does a person or entity have immunity from prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when rights that have been secured by the United States Constitution hav… |
| 18-5495 |
In Re Billy Ray Irick |
|
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment mental-illness personal-culpability sentencing |
Does the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitute cruel and unusual punishment … |
| 18-5466 |
Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void |
WHETHER A TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE RENDERS THE ATTEMPTED SENTENCE VOID.?
WHETHER THE TRIA… |
| 18-5425 |
Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. |
New York |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing |
1. Is thr Nru Yok Stute Bil Lav as appli-d (530.40) a bill of Attuinder 272
2. Is denyin horing, not risprdhny to mations, prporly keeping accyse out… |
| 18-5408 |
Norberto Serna v. California |
California |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity |
I. Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists—who harm their victims an… |
| 18-5387 |
John Garrett Smith v. Washington |
Washington |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violations civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution standing |
(1) Cana State intertionally fail to vires hostility State of its scienter of fraud, yet procead against MS sans-jurisdictional aothority to falsely o… |
| 18-5346 |
Roger Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-bail free-speech pretrial-detention speedy-trial standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5327 |
Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi v. Lieutenant Fields, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference deliberate-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression excessive-force federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-conflict retaliation standing takings witness-tampering |
-The FourthCircuit First opinion Appendx Findingin Maessis
Favor s r Confct ith th econonAppend
overlooKing
so much of the evidence that was held in t… |
| 18-5330 |
Gregory Alan Kokal v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review |
1. Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in orde… |
| 18-104 |
Robert Philip Tuerk v. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection freedom-of-travel freedom-to-travel prior-restraint reciprocal-discipline |
1. Whether the reciprocal upon reciprocal
discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home
state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year
a… |
| 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… |
| 18-81 |
Carltez Taylor v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years |
Whether it is cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile to a term exceeding their life expectancy for a single offense even when the sentenc… |
| 18-5246 |
Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination |
WHETHER PROSECUTION EVIDENCE THAT A CAPITAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH ONCE BEFORE IN THE SAME CASE IMPERMISSIBLY UNDERMINES THE SENTENCING… |
| 18-5239 |
Deshawn T. Terrell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-precedent |
Does the mandatory sentencing provision for the offense of felony murder under Ohio Revised Code § 2929.02(B)(1) violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Ame… |
| 18-5179 |
Ronnie Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
WHETHER THE BLACK LINE DRAWN BY THE FLORIDA SUPREME
COURT IN ASAY v. STATE, 210 S0.3d 1 (Fla. 2016), LIMITING THE
RETROACTIVE EFFECT OF HURST v. FLORI… |
| 18-5066 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. California |
California |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection gender-bias ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-interpretation overbreadth sentencing-disparities vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Petitioners sentence of 38yrs 4mos., violates equal protection under the law because of the disparities in Californa sentences
whether Ptiton… |
| 24A498 |
Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia |
Question not identified. |