proportionate-sentencing
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-6393 | Jeremy Jermaine Brooks v. James M. LeBlanc, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery-rule mootness-doctrine proportionate-sentencing | This case raises pressing issues of significant importance: whether Louisiana murder statutes satisfy the holdings announced in Miller/Montgomery inva… |
| 21-5198 | Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-07-27 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing | 1. When a judge openly admits bias against an appellant in which he was not only the trial judge but also the sentencing, shouldn't the remedy afforde… |