No. 18-5669

Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2018-08-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2018-10-05
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the petitioner can be punished with life without parole when not charged, tried, or convicted of first-degree murder

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED ; : Whether, pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to ; the United States Constitution, the petitioner can be punished ; with a sentence of life without parole, when he was never charged, oe tried, nor convicted of first degree murder, the only sentence . in Massachusetts attached to first degree murder.

Docket Entries

2018-10-09
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/5/2018.
2018-09-14
Waiver of right of respondent Massachusetts to respond filed.
2018-05-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 19, 2018)

Attorneys

Massachusetts
Randall Evan RavitzMassachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Randall Evan RavitzMassachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Peter Cruz
Peter Cruz — Petitioner
Peter Cruz — Petitioner