evolving-standards
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6885 | Thomas Creech v. Idaho | Idaho | 2025-03-28 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards execution-attempts | Should Resweber be overruled? |
| 24-6510 | James D. Ford v. Florida | Florida | 2025-02-08 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief | Whether Florida's use of the "conformity clause" in the Florida constitution improperly violates Ford's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and hi… |
| 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… |
| 23-6791 | Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho | Idaho | 2024-02-21 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards judicial-sentencing post-conviction state-court | Whether it comports with due process for a state court to reject as untimely an evolving-standards claim on a theory that would never allow for such a… |
| 21-7314 | William Jones v. Texas | Texas | 2022-03-08 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence criminal-sentencing cumulation-order district-court double-jeopardy evolving-standards judgment juvenile-culpability neuroscience-mitigation newly-discovered-evidence subsequent-prosecution | 1) Is Petitioner actually innocent in a subsequent prosecution when in the previous prosecution another District Court in another county convicted, pr… |
| 20-7665 | Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence | 1) What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses? 2) Are capital defendants confined to … |
| 18-9031 | In Re Michael Brandon Samra | 2019-04-30 | Denied | IFP | brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience | In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … | |
| 18-9033 | Michael Brandon Samra v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-04-30 | Denied | IFP | brain-development capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards evolving-standards-of-decency juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neuroscientific-research | In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … |
| 25A216 | Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. | Florida | Denied | capital-counsel death-penalty evolving-standards ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |