| 25-246 |
Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2025-09-03 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-law culpability due-process excessive-fines judicial-standard property-forfeiture |
The question presented is whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underl… |
| 24-5054 |
Amir Aqeel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias culpability due-process equal-justice fairness Involuntary-Plea-Agreement mandatory-guidelines nationality nationality-bias plea-agreement religion sentencing sentencing-disparity Violation-of-Policy-5H1.10 |
1. **Sentencing Disparity:** Whether a significant disparity in the sentencing of co-defendants violates the principle of equal justice under the law,… |
| 23-7091 |
Brandon De McCall v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment culpability due-process eighth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mitigating-evidence moral-blameworthiness |
Where jurors were instructed that they may only consider mitigating evidence to be evidence that "reduces the defendant's moral blameworthiness," and … |
| 23-635 |
Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure |
1. Has a claim been "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never … |
| 23-5851 |
Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection mitigation-evidence |
1. In a case in which the victim died from a single gunshot wound and the
factfinder did not find that the death-sentenced codefendant fired the fatal… |
| 22-7477 |
Douglas Manning v. Sgt. St. Paul, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights culpability damages defendant-rights due-process evidence-interference judicial-discretion legal-standard plaintiff-burden representation standing |
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| 22-7444 |
Julio Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice base-offense-level cocaine-possession criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing culpability culpability-assessment drug-quantity fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district courts erroneous decision to… |
| 21-8067 |
Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. |
| 20-7765 |
Jared Andrew Martin v. California |
California |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute culpability due-process evidence jury mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7648 |
Kesner V. Joaseus, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age constitutional-law criminal-justice culpability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the proportionality principle & the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has been violated by the sentencing court's failure to take into… |
| 20-5930 |
Diego Palacios-Villalon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure culpability drug-trafficking judicial-discretion mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
"does a defendant have the sole obligation in the establishment of these elements or does the trial judge have a duty to inquire into them". |
| 18-8561 |
Jeffery Lee Wood v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
culpability death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness law-of-parties tison-v-arizona |
Jeffery Wood is on death row in Texas despite the fact that he did not kill anyone. Mr. Wood was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death un… |
| 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? |
| 18-6891 |
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. |
| 18-5330 |
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… |
| 18-5278 |
Christopher Collings v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment culpability deliberation due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-reliability intoxication jury-instructions mens-rea mental-state |
Whether it violates th e Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time o… |