proportionate-penalties
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-7141 | Donald McDonald v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-03-29 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act life-sentence non-violent-felony proportionate-penalties proportionate-penalties-clause sentencing solem-v-helm | Whether the decision of the first District Appellate court of Illinois denying Petitioner's proportionate penalty clausd claim conflicts with the deci… |
| 22-6431 | Philip Johnson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion | (1) Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment. (2) Whether the sentencing process mandated … |
| 21-7731 | Alonzo Bell v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-discretion proportionate-penalties sentencing | Whether the Circuit Court erred in admitting Social Media evidence at trial. Whether Defendant was Denied His Constitutional right to the effective a… |
| 20-6206 | Travis Johnson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-11-03 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent | 1. IS Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983) binding Case Law? 2. Must Illinois Appellant Courts be required to Follow the United States Supreme Court's … |
| 19-8448 | Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing | I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which an 18-year-old defendant who received a de facto life sentence does that sente… |