| 25-5797 |
Leigha Page Ackerson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure felony-murder legislative-amendment life-without-parole proportionality-review sentencing |
1. Whether the procedure to affirm an LWOP
sentence for felony murder once the Felony Murder
bill 21-124 became effective is in the interest of
jus… |
| 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… |
| 25-5279 |
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… |
| 24A1175 |
Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7172 |
Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment life-without-parole proportionality texas-penal-code |
Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit sentences which are disproportionate?
If so, is Life Without Parole disproportionate for a capital murder
convict… |
| 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… |
| 24-6748 |
Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences constitutional-proportionality cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole sentencing |
1) Under the ever evolving standards that mark the progress of a maturing society, does the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual pu… |
| 24-941 |
Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
diminished-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing penological-goals |
Petitioner received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for felony murder. He was twenty years old at the time… |
| 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. |
| 24A595 |
Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-12-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole proportionality youth-sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-460 |
Corey Miller v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals life-without-parole racial-prejudice supervisory-power |
Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou… |
| 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… |
| 24-5420 |
Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing |
Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… |
| 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. |
| 23-7124 |
Naftali Dominguez Zenon v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony life-without-parole sixth-amendment |
I. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony… |
| 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 … |
| 23-6739 |
John Richard Brinson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable? |
| 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… |
| 23A475 |
Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-retroactivity post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5167 |
Jose Suarez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessorial-liability accessorial-participation criminal-culpability criminal-record cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Does a mandatory life sentence without parole for an individual who was twenty at the time of the offense, who was without a criminal record, who had … |
| 23-5002 |
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… |
| 22-1063 |
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 … |
| 22-6231 |
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… |
| 22-6023 |
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, … |
| 22-6027 |
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, … |
| 22-5889 |
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, … |
| 22-5203 |
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… |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) - a stat… |
| 21-1464 |
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… |
| 21-1363 |
Brandon Scott Lavergne v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole plea-agreement rule-60b-petition solitary-confinement |
1) Is a criminal sentence of life without parole in
solitary confinement a cruel and unusual sentence?
2) Ifone federal district court finds I was no… |
| 21-7457 |
Gregory Wynn v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Whether, in light of the uncontroverted evidence of Gregory Wynn's potential for maturity and positive change as an adult, his sentence of life impris… |
| 21-7435 |
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… |
| 21-6279 |
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… |
| 21-6237 |
Glenn C. Damond v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-offenders life-without-parole non-homicide-offenses |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6206 |
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… |
| 21-5391 |
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? |
| 21-5108 |
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. |
| 20-8208 |
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… |
| 20-7718 |
Deidre Antoinette Pierre v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adolescent-brain-science constitutional-rights cruel-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole miller-mandate rs-15-574-4-d sentencing-discretion |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 20, of the Louisiana Constitution prohibits the imposition of… |
| 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… |
| 20-7520 |
Shante Bruce Rice v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-defendant constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-sentencing equal-protection equal-protection-clause life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT'S DECISION THAT THE BAN ON MANDATORY SENTENCES OF LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE APPLIES TO ONLY THOSE DEFENDANTS WHO WER… |
| 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… |
| 20-6775 |
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… |
| 20-831 |
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… |
| 20-830 |
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… |
| 20-6626 |
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. |
| 20-6089 |
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… |
| 20-5893 |
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… |
| 20-5193 |
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 … |
| 19-8666 |
Louis Mayes v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection life-without-parole sentencing |
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| 19-8130 |
Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
South Carolina |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction |
ISSUE ONE:
CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO CORRECT SOUTH CAROLINA'S
ERRONEOUS DENIAL OF EXTRAODINARY WRIT CHALLENGING THE SOUTH
CAROLINA'S INADEQUATE POS… |
| 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… |
| 19-7437 |
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… |
| 19-7397 |
Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equal-protection free-speech life-without-parole sentencing separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Here in these United States of America where we have all pledged "...justice for all", is this Honorable High Court's supervisory authority called for… |
| 19-7146 |
David Rapoport v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns death-penalty due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance life-without-parole plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal-rights |
1. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages?
2. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective during the plea-bargaining process?
3. … |
| 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… |
| 19-6811 |
Lamont Bernard Heard v. Rick Snyder, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-rule developmental-characteristics eighth-amendment fixed-character life-without-parole mature-adults mitigating-factor national-census transitional-stage youth-offenders youthful-offender |
1. Should this Court afford Eighth Amendment protection to youthful
offenders based on this Coprt's own precedent and national
census that youth is … |
| 19-6261 |
Jeremiah Marion v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process evidence-rule evidentiary-provision first-time-offender fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole petition-for-grievances sexual-battery uncorroborated-accusations |
DOES THE EVIDENTIARY PROVISION OF FLORIDA 'S SEXUAL
BATTERY STATUTE VIOLATE THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT?
AND/OR
CAN A STATE LAW MANDATE LIFE WITHOUT PARO… |
| 19-399 |
Barry C. Garcia v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
discretionary-sentencing juvenile-offenses juvenile-offenses-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole resentencing-hearing sentencing |
1. Whether the constitutional standard announced in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012),—that sentences of life without the possibility of parole f… |
| 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… |
| 19-250 |
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… |
| 19-5060 |
Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction |
First Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing |
1: Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons abilities t… |
| 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. |
| 18-9238 |
Reshaud Todd Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habitual-offender habitual-offender-statute life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-court youthful-adult youthful-offender |
Whether imposition of a mandatory sentence of life without parole under a habitual offender statute violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against … |
| 18-8993 |
Frederick R. Cote v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability false-evidence false-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance life-without-parole third-party-culpability |
1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a freestanding claim of actual innocence when a habeas petitioner serving li… |
| 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… |
| 18-8740 |
Michael Manley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-creation judicial-overreach life-without-parole mandatory-sentence |
Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey's due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence?
… |
| 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.
… |
| 18-8117 |
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… |
| 18-7917 |
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… |
| 18-7468 |
Robert Charles Jones v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-advice criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole parole plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Jones received ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel advised him to stipulate to a sentence of life without the possibility… |
| 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… |
| 18-7169 |
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… |
| 18-7034 |
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? |
| 18-6469 |
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… |
| 18-6149 |
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… |
| 18-5986 |
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… |
| 18-5742 |
Solomon David Roberts v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus life-without-parole mandatory-minimums miller-v-alabama sentencing simple-robbery standing |
Whether CAJ NEw Rule oF Lonsttitonal law by the Supreme Lourt to the Dnited states Made [RJe troactive to the statEs is Subsect Previsus filings.?
Pe… |
| 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… |
| 18-5696 |
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… |
| 18-5669 |
Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing |
Whether, pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the petitioner can be punished with a sentence of life wit… |
| 18-5634 |
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 |
|
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… |
| 18-5222 |
Corvain T. Cooper, aka CV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute habeas-corpus invalidated-convictions life-without-parole resentencing sentencing state-convictions |
1. Whether a Petitioner Who Was Sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Which was Enhanced By Two Later Invalidated State Convictions, Ma… |