No. 18-203
Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi
Tags: 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts
Key Terms:
Takings Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
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Latest Conference:
2019-01-04
(distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentence of life without parole
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentence of life without parole. 2. Whether Joey Chandler’s life without parole sentence violates the Eighth Amendment because the sentencing judge failed to consider substantial, unrebutted evidence of his rehabilitation.
Docket Entries
2019-01-07
Petition DENIED.
2018-12-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.
2018-12-17
Reply of petitioner Joey M. Chandler filed.
2018-12-03
Brief of respondent State of Mississippi in opposition filed.
2018-11-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including December 3, 2018.
2018-11-08
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 13, 2018 to December 3, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-10-11
Brief amici curiae of California Attorneys for Criminal Justice et al. filed.
2018-10-11
Brief amicus curiae of Scholars of Criminal Law filed. (11/23/2018)
2018-10-11
Brief amici curiae of Scholars of Criminal Law filed.(Corrected version submitted).
2018-10-11
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 13, 2018.
2018-10-09
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 11, 2018 to November 13, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-10-02
Brief amicus curiae of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. filed.
2018-09-14
Brief amici curiae of Current and Former Prosecutors, Department of Justice Officials, and Judges filed.
2018-09-11
Response Requested. (Due October 11, 2018)
2018-09-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-20
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2018-08-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 14, 2018)
Attorneys
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice et al.
John Robert Mills — Phillips Black, Amicus
Current and Former Prosecutors, Department of Justice Officials, and Judges
Joey M. Chandler
David Michael Shapiro — MacArthur Justice Center, Petitioner
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Scholars of Criminal Law
State of Mississippi
Scott Stuart — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent