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24-600 Quiotis C., Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) batson-challenge constitutional-rights jury-trial juvenile-justice prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment 1. Whether all juveniles are guaranteed the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial in the Constitution regardless of their geographic location when t…
24A80 Steven Cuellar v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process gang-enhancement juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
23-7814 James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing 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…
23-6988 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 …
23-6606 In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation I.HOW DOES-ONE NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL SAME FREEDOMS AS A JUVENILE WHOSE STANDARDS -ULTS ARE LESS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY?RIGHT TO THE FOR ADII.WHE…
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.
23-471 Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama Alabama 2023-11-03 Denied 8th-amendment age-discrimination capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection juvenile-justice Petitioner seeks this Court's review of the Alabama Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's habeas petition, which presents important issues concerning…
23-82 Joshua Isaiah Joyner v. Texas Texas 2023-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claims without requiring the trial court to …
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 …
22-7492 Cedric Winston O'Neal v. Craig Hughes, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-penalty mandatory-transfer miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana Are Mandatory Transfer Schemes also apart of SCOTUS' 8th Amendment ban of mandatory penalty schemes against children? Did the United States Supreme C…
22-7197 Bernard A. Brandon v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coercion criminal-procedure custody juvenile-justice miranda-rights probation (1) Whether an interrogation in a secured facility between a probationer who is present on the orders of his probation officer, and armed law enforcem…
22-6807 Antonio McGhee v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
22-6431 Philip Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion (1) Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment. (2) Whether the sentencing process mandated …
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. …
22-5947 Kevin Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2022-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias 1. In light of a court's duty to issue a remedy that "neutralize[s] the taint of a constitutional violation" while avoiding the grant of "a windfall t…
22-5489 Under Seal v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-detention-act malicious-wounding mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether Virginia's crime of Malicious Wounding, Va. Code 18.2-51, is a crime of violence under the categorical approach, thereby implicating the Juven…
22-5465 LaRoyce McFadden v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process interrogation-rights involuntary-confession juvenile-justice juvenile-suspect police-interrogation police-procedure right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether a murder conviction based on a 17-year-old boy's statements made to police after he was held incommunicado for over 24 hours, the police ignor…
22-5385 J. S. v. Texas Texas 2022-08-19 Denied IFP confrontation criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice kent-v-united-states sixth-amendment A split exists among state courts of last resort on whether the Sixth Amendment right to confrontation extends to a hearing on whether to certify a ch…
22-5354 Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-08-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-rule rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion The facts, issues, and eudeace relates to Lace A Juvenile Lifec*s DecertiFitarion(Jrunstec) deescrou ace celévaatto Said Juvenile Likees re sentencing…
22-5369 Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement 1). If the record in this case contains two "written waivers" of counsel, and one request to proceed pro se by counsel, prior to voir dire. But, the r…
21-7676 Robert Christopher Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-challenge (1) Whether a pre- Miller guilty plea bars a post- Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment. (2) Whether the sentencing process mandat…
21-7596 Janai Meeks v. Butte County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions detention due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdictional-issues juvenile-justice legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions Specifically designated for 401 &602 cases held in Juvenile court and the later placed in Minors coster Is the Family Court of Law Judge of minors due…
21-7570 Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-04-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing In every jurisdiction of the United States - both federal and State - there is a balancing test for deciding whether a court's decision to deny a Crim…
21-7221 Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was " greater than necessary " considering his troubled childhood.
21-6719 N. R. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration 1. Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a state to retroactively impose registration obligations on a person who was adjudicated of…
21-6528 Tushkahomma J. Leon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-06 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure juvenile-justice mcgirt-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction 1. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced? 2. Is Oklahoma'…
21-5498 Raymond Concepcion v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-court juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality youth youth-culpability 1. Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of th…
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…
20-1645 Don Wilburn Collins v. Texas Texas 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto juvenile-jurisdiction juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-jurisdiction Did the Texas appel late courts fail to realize that the retroactive expansion of juris diction over a previous ly exempt juvenile for capital murder …
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…
20-6746 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?
20-819 Duy T. Mai v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-ban juvenile-commitment juvenile-justice mental-health second-amendment standing Can the Second Amendment tolerate a lifetime firearm ban on Mr. Mai, a mentally healthy, stable, and law-abiding individual, because of a juvenile inv…
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 …
20-5491 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?
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…
19-8448 Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which an 18-year-old defendant who received a de facto life sentence does that sente…
19-1278 Hunter Fussell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-05-12 Denied Response Waived automatic-transfer child-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer liberty-interest state-statute 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires that a child receive an individualized hearing before being placed in criminal court to be tried as an adul…
19-8231 Juvenile Male v. United States Second Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer prosecutorial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing transfer-hearing Whether the refusal of the United States Attorney to detail the defendants role in weighing his potential for rehabilitation in the interest of justic…
19-8183 Jose Nogales v. California California 2020-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing The State of California recently passed legislation (Senate Bill No. 1391) that effectively eliminated the practice of prosecuting 14 and 15 year ol…
19-8058 Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity Whether, due to the overwhelingly objective indicis of national consensus that surrounds the advaned research on adblescent brain developmont wholly d…
19-7887 Juvenile Female v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-status congress-intent delinquency-prevention district-court-discretion due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act juvenile-offenders juvenile-transfer sentencing supreme-court-precedent transfer-to-adult-status Whether a district court errs when it gives too much weight to the seriousness of charged offenses in deciding whether to transfer a juvenile to adult…
19-7688 Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-standard miller-v-alabama rehabilitation rehabilitation-needs sentencing sentencing-discretion transfer The fact, issues, and evidence related to a juvenile lifer's decertification (Transfer) decision are relevant to said Juvenile Lifer's Resentencing. T…
19-7198 B. T. D. v. Alabama Alabama 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer serious-physical-injury standing vagueness I. Does a child have due process rights to a judicial determination of whether his/her case should remain in juvenile court or should be transferred t…
19-6057 Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing Question not identified.
18-9839 Robert E. King v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-27 Denied IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice post-conviction-relief racial-discrimination Did Oklahoma 's Appellate Court "The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals " deprive Robert E. King the right to equal protection of the law afforded to …
18-9451 Denzel Pittman v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process illinois-law judicial-mandate juvenile-justice mental-health petition-for-leave-to-appeal second-amendment self-regulation standing supreme-court takings A defendant, whose age falls on the Adult side of the Miller height line, is entitled under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution to …
18-8493 Jeremel Remymartin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-firearm-statute criminal-law-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation youthful-offender WHETHER A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER CONVICTION CAN BE USED FOR PURPOSES OF A STATUTE UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) WHERE THE PREVIOUS ADJUDICATION WERE JUVENILE…
18-7845 Philip Andra Grigsby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law contact-restrictions court-of-appeals due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice minor-children parental-rights Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying a parent c…
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…
18-7459 Michael J. Greene v. William O. Huffman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice sentencing standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice standing state-law Question not identified.
18-7217 C. G., a Minor v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-01-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial juvenile-justice state-law Does a state law that completely bans jury trials for juveniles charged with crimes violate the federal constitutional rights to a jury trial, due pro…
18-7019 Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden Nevada 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing Does The U.s, supreme court's holdins in Goraham U.Florida, 176L.Ed,2d 825. Dealins WiTh Juvenilt Ofrtnders only apply to The sentencins of a Juvenile…
18-6849 Steven James v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-rights jdb-v-north-carolina jury-instructions juvenile-brain-science juvenile-homicide juvenile-justice juvenile-rights miller-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity sentencing-standards This case presents two questions of national importance concerning the federal constitutional rights of juvenile homicide defendants (like Steven Jame…
18-6093 Brian Tate v. Maryland Maryland 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights developmental-capacity diminished-capacity due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-defendant juvenile-justice maryland-rule-4-242(c) mental-illness Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, and MARYLAND RULE 4-242(c), requires…
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-…
18-5698 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…
18-192 J. B. R. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied age-of-criminal-responsibility constitutional-limits constitutional-punishment criminal-prosecution death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-imprisonment prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation statutory-punishment Whether the Due Process Clause forbids the Government from prosecuting an individual who was a juvenile at the time of the crime under a statute that …
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…
18-5211 Taylor B. v. California California 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice miranda-rights police-interrogation 1) When the subject of a police custodial interrogation is a child, should investigating officers be required to obtain an express waiver of Miranda b…