No. 18-5669
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
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 Ravitz — Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Randall Evan Ravitz — Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent