proportionality-principle
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 21-8232 | Stephon Ellis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment judicial-discretion mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines traumatic-background traumatic-childhood | Whether the 90-month sentence imposed on Mr. Ellis was "greater than necessary" considering his extraordinarily traumatic childhood. |
| 20-5380 | Antonio Deshawn Pitt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-health proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court's statutory obligation to consider the "history and circumstances" of a criminal defendant and to refrain from imposing a sen… |
| 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… |