mitigating-factor
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-6921 | Sedale Pervis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The touchstone statu te for criminal sentencing, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), provides that a sentence must promote respect for the law. However, "respect for… |
| 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… |
| 19-7832 | Sean Wayne Pierce v. California | California | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | actually-innocent constitutional-review conviction criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama mitigating-factor sentence standard-of-review-under-miller-v-alabama status-rather-than-criminal-conduct validity-of-conviction youth-offender | 1. Whether habeas corpus under Miller v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460, 465 was necessary when a "significant mitigating factor " pop-up that calls into qu… |
| 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 … |