No. 18-7034

Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2018-12-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole
Key Terms:
Punishment
Latest Conference: 2019-02-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole sentences?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Juveniles and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are understood to be less culpable than other defendants. Because of this diminished level of culpability, neither group is eligible for the death penalty. In Miller v. Alabama, this Court concluded that juveniles cannot be subject to mandatory life imprisonment without eligibility for parole sentences. The Question Presented is: Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from receiving mandatory life imprisonment without parole sentences? i

Docket Entries

2019-02-19
Petition DENIED.
2019-01-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2019-01-02
Waiver of right of respondent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to respond filed.
2018-09-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 14, 2019)

Attorneys

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Karen T. EdwardsOffice of the District Attorney, Respondent
Karen T. EdwardsOffice of the District Attorney, Respondent
Shawn Sadik
Lea T. BickertonBickerton and Bickerton, Attorneys at Law, Petitioner
Lea T. BickertonBickerton and Bickerton, Attorneys at Law, Petitioner