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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-9031 In Re Michael Brandon Samra 2019-04-30 Denied IFP brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who …