| 25-1115 |
Utah v. Morris Thomas Mullins |
Utah |
2026-03-24 |
Pending |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation |
Whether a sentencing court can impose a sentence of life without parole on a juvenile murderer even if the court finds that the juvenile is not perman… |
| 25-6636 |
Donnie Bryant v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 924c-convictions extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act juvenile-sentencing sentence-modification |
1. Should a defendant's juvenile status at the time of the offense qualify as an extraordinary and compelling reason for a modification of a term of i… |
| 25-6499 |
Nycole Amaury Rosario Sánchez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor |
Whether youth (minor age) at the time of the commission of a criminal offense, with its intrinsic characteristics, is inherently a mitigating factor t… |
| 25-200 |
Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion |
Whether North Carolina, in conflict with this Court's precedents and those of other states, has violated the Eighth Amendment by creating a de facto m… |
| 25-5341 |
Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent |
In 1994, an Arizona judge sentenced Mr. Laird to death for a murder conviction and a total of 129 years in prison for 13 other nonhomicide crimes. Mr.… |
| 25-5279 |
Evan McCarrick Jerald v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-guidelines |
Under Graham v. Florida, the Eighth Amendment "prohibits the imposition of a life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender who did not commit ho… |
| 24-6939 |
Scott Lee DeShaw, et al. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-04-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
criminal-procedure jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama parole-discretion |
States may not "make life without parole the mandatory (or mandatory minimum) punishment" for juveniles. Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 482 n.9 (201… |
| 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… |
| 24A767 |
Jacob Brown v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-relief eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole post-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6387 |
Raymond Bradley v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-sentencing criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum proportionality-principle youth-consideration |
Whether the mandatory penalty scheme at issue here is flawed where it prevents the sentencer from taking account of the central considerations of Grah… |
| 24-6356 |
RonAllen Hardy v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brain-development cognitive-maturity cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-principles |
1. Whether sentencing RonAllen Hardy to life without parole, despite his
being 18 years and 5 months old at the time of the offense and developmental… |
| 24-391 |
Felipe Petrone-Cabanas v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion |
Whether juveniles may be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discretion to choose any lesser opti… |
| 24A76 |
Jonathan Andrew Arias, Christopher Lee McLeod, Thomas James Odom, Felipe Petrone-Cabanas, and Charles Vincent Wagner v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama youth-mitigation |
Question not identified. |
| 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. |
| 23-6988 |
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 … |
| 23-830 |
Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile to be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discret… |
| 23-6393 |
Jeremy Jermaine Brooks v. James M. LeBlanc, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery-rule mootness-doctrine proportionate-sentencing |
This case raises pressing issues of significant importance: whether Louisiana murder statutes satisfy the holdings announced in Miller/Montgomery inva… |
| 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… |
| 23-5002 |
Joseph Hauschild v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity meaningful-opportunity-for-release roper-v-simmons sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentence |
In the landmark decision of Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), this Court held that, for a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide, the Eigh… |
| 22-7769 |
Tyrone Desante Morant v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion |
Missouri's former first-degree murder statute, Section 565.020, RSMo, mandated a sentence of life without parole for any offender who committed the of… |
| 22-1063 |
Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker |
Tennessee |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentences |
Whether this Court should extend Graham and Miller to term-of-years prison sentences that permit a juvenile offender's release after a lengthy period … |
| 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 … |
| 22-6231 |
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… |
| 22-6217 |
Steven Wayne Keefe v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adequate-defense ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mental-health mental-health-expert miller-v-alabama sentencing |
This petition presents the following question: whether the "basic tools of an adequate defense" include expert assistance in "evaluation, preparation,… |
| 22-6027 |
Cedric Joseph Rue, Jr. v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-interpretation juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing-discretion |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-6023 |
Tonatihu Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama parole-abolition sentencing-reform |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-5889 |
Michael Paul Jessup v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-5584 |
Emru Kebede v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment age-discrimination due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences roper-v-simmons |
1.) DO THE DECISIONS OF THIS COURT IN ROPER V. SIMMONS AND MILLER V. ALABAMA ESTABLISH A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT FOR OFFENDERS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE AS IT R… |
| 22-5458 |
Kenneth Lainell Davis v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eighth-amendment felony jury jury-composition juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense.
2. Whether the imposition of a … |
| 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… |
| 22-5245 |
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… |
| 22-5203 |
Travis Wade Amaral v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-prohibition due-process juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years-sentences |
1. Does the constitutional prohibition against mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders in Miller v. Alabama apply to mandatory term-of-years s… |
| 21-7977 |
Jason Albert Halda v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing disproportionality eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-montgomery-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines |
1. Is Jason Halda entitled to a resentencing because the judge imposed sentences long before
the Court's rulings in Miller and Montgomery. Therefore,… |
| 21-1464 |
Emond S. Gulley v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion term-of-years-sentence |
In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), the Court held that the Eighth Amendment bars the mandatory imposition of life in prison without parole for… |
| 21-7435 |
Ronell Williams v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discretionary-sentencing jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion youth-characteristics |
Does this Court's decision in Jones v. Mississippi, 593 U. S. ___, ___, 141 S. Ct. 1307, 1320, 209 L. Ed. 2d 390 (2021) mandate that states must stric… |
| 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… |
| 21-7052 |
Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether, given the rarity of the grant of parole in Florida and Florida's failure to take a juvenile offender's maturity and rehabilitation adequately… |
| 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 … |
| 21-6279 |
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… |
| 21-6257 |
Jevon Dion Jackson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality proportionality-review youth-mitigation |
1. Whether a sentencing court adequately considers the mitigating aspects of youth where it considers at least some of those aspects to be aggravating… |
| 21-6206 |
Joel Barcelona v. Sergeant Parish, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-threatening life-without-parole medical-treatment refusal-of-care |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5792 |
Karl Roye v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp… |
| 21-5713 |
Kirk Johnson, aka Qabail Hizbullah-Ankh-Amon v. New York |
New York |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law functional-equivalent-life-sentence juvenile-sentencing miller-standard retroactive-effect retroactivity state-collateral-review teague-framework |
Jurisdiction and- the-Teague-Standard: 1 .
Does the Court have t*fie power to review a State Collateral Review
Court 's failure to give Retroactive E… |
| 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? |
| 21-5149 |
Leobardo Barraza v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
In view of the foregoing, this petition presents this issue:
Whether a federal court commits plain error by anchoring a sentence for a juvenile's cri… |
| 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. |
| 20-1728 |
Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin… |
| 20-8208 |
Ashanti Lusby v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-factors miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-hearing |
In Jones v. Mississippi, No. 18-1259, __U.S.__, 141 S.Ct. 1307, 1314-15 (2021), this Court reaffirmed, when reviewing a post-Miller sentencing hearing… |
| 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… |
| 20-7851 |
Luis Noel Cruz, aka Noel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment contemporary-standards-of-decency criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing legislative-trends life-sentence mandatory-minimum miller-rule sentencing-discretion |
Should the protections of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012), which prohibits mandatory life sentences and req… |
| 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… |
| 20-7581 |
Michael Hernandez v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights fact-finding first-amendment judicial-discretion juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-factors sixth-amendment trial-judge |
1. Whether Florida's juvenile sentencing statute - which mandates a life sentence if a certain finding is made and prohibits that sentence when that f… |
| 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… |
| 20-1315 |
Louisiana v. Aaron G. Hauser |
Louisiana |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-miller-standard montgomery-v-louisiana rehabilitation rehabilitation-evidence sentencing-discretion |
Does a sentencing court run afoul of Montgomery and Miller by weighing the heinous facts of a juvenile's violent crime more heavily than any subsequen… |
| 20-7419 |
Kamil Johnson v. W. E. Mackelburg, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance iowa-supreme-court juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief |
Is whether the Iowa Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying the habeas corpus petition based upon ineffective assistance of counsel under th… |
| 20-7338 |
Foster Lee Tarver v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment judicial-abuse-of-discretion juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama statutory-construction |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ' Judgment, that affirmed an illegal
mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner by the ar… |
| 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… |
| 20-7160 |
Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion |
If the Eighth Amendment forbids automatic life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders, does a sentencing court have the discretion to impose … |
| 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… |
| 20-6902 |
Layw Thomas v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hammer-clause juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-discretion |
Did Kentucky violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it allowed a youth who was 17 when his crimes occurred to be sentenced to life in priso… |
| 20-6911 |
Dimas Alfaro-Granados v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama rico-enterprise sentencing sixth-amendment vicar |
[1]- 1st Question Presented on Request and Application for COA
Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the di… |
| 20-6775 |
Dantazias Raines v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sixth-amendment |
Dantazias Raines was sentenced to life without parole for a botched robbery that ended in a death when he was seventeen years old. After the Supreme C… |
| 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? |
| 20-830 |
Washington v. Said Omer Ali |
Washington |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-831 |
Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio |
Washington |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 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 … |
| 20-6483 |
Adrien John Matuck v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-proportionality criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion speedy-trial statute-of-limitations |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 20-704 |
Cesar Santana v. California |
California |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
|
age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender |
1. Does California Create a Liberty Interest to "Youthful-Offender's" when it Enacted
Legislation in Response/Remedy of a United States Supreme Court… |
| 20-6089 |
Jermaine D. Hill v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-hearing retroactivity statute-of-limitations |
In 2012 this Count ruled in Miller v. Alabama 567 U.S. that it is Unconstitutional to sentence a juvenile to life without the possibility of parole. I… |
| 20-6023 |
Carlos Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-sentence procedural-bar state-court-decisional-law state-court-law |
Can the Florida Supreme Court use state court decisional law to procedurally bar a non-homicide juvenile defendant from seeking relief from an illegal… |
| 20-5981 |
Javier Garza v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-characteristics constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment judicial-review juvenile-sentencing legal-interpretation miller-v-louisiana statutory-provisions youth-characteristics |
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MXbLAre Tm Sxahth /IMmm &jt, vuiess thf TfixaL… |
| 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… |
| 20-5193 |
Mollee M. McWhorter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole standing takings |
I WISH THE US SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW THE UNCONSTITUATIONALITY OF CANNABIS LAWS AS IT RELATES TO MY FEDERAL CASE AND HOW IT IS APPLICABLE TO MILLIONS … |
| 20-5217 |
David Kelsey Sparre v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
adolescent-brain-development brain-development constitutional-rights first-degree-murder harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing prejudice trial-strategy |
1. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and execute the defense trial strategy, which would have significantly undermined the State's case f… |
| 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 … |
| 19-8668 |
Lemuel Whiteside v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-robbery capital-felony-murder constitutional-rights graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment non-homicide-crime procedural-default |
WHETHER, FOLLOWING THIS COURT'S DECISION IN GRAHAM v. FLORIDA . 560 U.S. 48, 79 (2010), THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN INSTRUCTING PETITIONER WHITESIDE'S TR… |
| 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… |
| 19-8139 |
Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion |
Did the Fourth Circuit commit errror by not granting Mr. 1.
Cerritos a COA under 28 tKS.C... §2253 (c)(2), after the denial of
his 28 U.S.C. §2255 mot… |
| 19-8057 |
Aaron Moran Brown v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-system |
1. Does the substantive rule of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), apply to de facto life sentences for juveniles, as the solid majority of juris… |
| 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… |
| 19-7799 |
Desmond Baker v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole sentencing-review |
Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States juvenile homicide offender, who has certain nonhomicide felony convictions, to s… |
| 19-7751 |
Christopher Michael Thrasher v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-hearing |
Following Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), juvenile homicide offenders have been divided into two classes: (1) those who may not be sentenced t… |
| 19-7676 |
Robert Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment graham-v-florida graham-vs-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-rule miller-v-alabama miller-vs-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… |
| 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… |
| 19-7574 |
Luis Beltran v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing |
In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), and Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016), this Court held that sentencing a juvenile defendant (i… |
| 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… |
| 19-720 |
United States v. Riley Briones, Jr. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole parole sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether Miller v. Alabama, which "h[e]ld that the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of par… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6136 |
Thomas A. Bias v. Jimmy Martin, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-sentencing,eighth-amendment,fourteenth-am life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana supreme-court-precedent |
IS THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA UNCONSTITUTIONALLY IMPOSING
CONTINUED IMPRISONMENT ON JUVENILE 'S SENTENCED TO LIFE, IN
DISREGARD OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREM… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6006 |
Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits life-without-parole sentences for all but the rarest juvenile s who exhibit a lack of rehabilitative potential due thei… |
| 19-5932 |
Chavez Myers v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights comprehensive-youth-justice-amendment-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana standing youth-reform-act |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5859 |
Edward Wesby v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-standard miller-v-alabama parole parole-eligibility |
Whether Florida's current parole system provides a meaningful opportunity for release to juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment with eligib… |
| 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 … |
| 19-264 |
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… |
| 19-265 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Laycelle Tornee White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences sentencing |
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… |
| 19-250 |
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… |
| 19-91 |
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… |
| 19-5191 |
Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia |
Does the legal "right" recognized in Miller v. Alabama, 132 S.Ct. 2455 (2012), include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including… |
| 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? |
| 18A1229 |
Sam Newman v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama second-degree-murder |
Question not identified. |
| 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. |
| 18-9123 |
Jovan McClenton v. California |
California |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discretion due-process eighth-amendment miller-v-alabama sentencing de-novo-resentencing discretionary-sentencing eighth-amendment hallmark-features-of-youth juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama proportionality |
Is de novo resentencing required where lengthy, fully determinate sentences, primarily based on the discretion of the trial court, were imposed on juv… |
| 18-8951 |
Terrance Proctor v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigation proportionality sentencing-mitigation |
1. Are consecutive, fixed term sentences for juveniles unconstitutional at the outset when they amount functional equivalent of life w/out parole?
Ap… |
| 18-8748 |
Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-09 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination |
1. Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis?
2. Whether lif… |
| 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… |
| 18A1001 |
Freddy Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors proportionality |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1002 |
Joseph Carter v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1003 |
Gary Reid v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-v-alabama proportionality |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 18-8298 |
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.
… |
| 18-8116 |
Budry Michel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts |
1. The Florida Supreme Court held, contrary to the plain language of this
Court, and contrary to the holdings of the high courts of other states, that… |
| 18-8117 |
Brandon Pete v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-proportionality juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana offense-level-43 sentencing-guidelines title-18 |
I.
May the sentence of a juvenile convicted as an adult of a non-premeditated
homicide constitutionally start from a guideline of life-without-parole… |
| 18-8041 |
Mark Johnson v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adolescent-culpability age-as-factor age-of-culpability brain-development criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana roper-v-simmons |
This Court has issued at least four decision finding that adolescents are less culpable than adults. Dr. Laurence Steinberg has determined that the li… |
| 18-7917 |
Najee Sharif Wilkins v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-eligibility witness-testimony |
Petitioner was sentenced to 45-100 years concurrent to 10-40 years for second-degree murder and perjury committed when he was under the age of 18 whic… |
| 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… |
| 18-7279 |
Christian Thomas v. District Attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-question graham grant juvenile-sentencing mental-capacity miller sixth-amendment teague |
Is a federal question raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller exceptio… |
| 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… |
| 18-7169 |
Steve L. Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity-for-release ongoing-offense retroactivity sentencing-mitigation term-of-years term-of-years-sentence |
Whether, in imposing sentence for an ongoing offense, courts must consider juvenile conduct as a mitigating sentencing factor?
Whether, in imposing s… |
| 18-6777 |
Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four… |
| 18-6782 |
Tia Marie-Mitchell Skinner v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four… |
| 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… |
| 18-6469 |
Tyrone D. Morant v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 18-6405 |
Sydney L. Thieszen v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana tatum-v-arizona |
Whether the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct 2455 (2012), Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577… |
| 18-6226 |
Roderick K. Forest v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 18-6178 |
Joseph A. Clark v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 18-6185 |
Jason Beckman v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding factfinding jury-factfinding juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-factors miller-v-alabama sentencing-factors sixth-amendment |
Petitioner Jason Beckman, a juvenile at the time of the offense, was convicted of first-degree murder. Because he was a juvenile, he received an indiv… |
| 18-6149 |
Christopher Polk v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 18-6088 |
Joseph Burris v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… |
| 18-6032 |
D. L. v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
does-wisconsin's-sentencing-scheme-apply-to-juveni federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence martinez-trevino-doctrine martinez-v-ryan miller-v-alabama procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings trevino-v-thaler |
(1) Can the exceptions excusing procedural default of ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims in the Martinez/Trevino doctrine apply to State H… |
| 18-5986 |
Damon L. Caldwell v. Stanley Payne, Superintendent, Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing realistic-opportunity resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants who had previously been illegally sentenced to mand… |
| 18-5696 |
Curtis Croft v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review due-process irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama opportunity-to-present-evidence sentencing-discretion split-of-authority |
Whether Illinois has misused the broad discretion allowed the states by endorsing a deferential, exclusive "backwards-looking" examination of the "col… |
| 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) … |
| 18-5634 |
Kipland Phillip Kinkel v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-illness miller-montgomery-standard miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-due-process |
Does a treatable, but not curable, mental illness constitute "irreparable corruption" under Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana?
Do Graham … |
| 18-203 |
Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sent… |
| 18-98 |
Jerrard T. Cook, aka Jerrad T. Cook, aka Jerrard Cook aka Jerrard Tramaine Cook, aka J-Fat v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibits juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sentencing sentencing-authority |
The Court stated in Montgomery v. Louisiana that the Eighth Amendment prohibits life without parole sentences "for all but the rarest of juvenile offe… |
| 18-81 |
Carltez Taylor v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 18-5239 |
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… |