mandatory-life-imprisonment
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-5403 | Dimarzio Swade Sanchez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions mandatory-life-imprisonment sixth-amendment | The government convicted Dimarzio Swade Sanchez of aiding and abetting in first degree murder, and he was sentenced to a mandatory life imprisonment. … |
| 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… |
| 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? |
| 18-6036 | Donald S. Harden v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | This Court granted certiorari in Burrage v. United States, 569 U.S. 957 (2013), to decide two questions concerning the "death results" sentencing enha… |