No. 18-8116
Tags: 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment,federal-habeas,state-court,merits federal-courts federal-habeas federal-review habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing merits parole-eligibility plain-language standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus ClassAction
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus ClassAction
Latest Conference:
2019-03-22
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision?
Question Presented (from Petition)
question presented is: Whether a state court can treat a federal habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits contrary to the plain language of the decision? 2. Whether former juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment with parole eligibility after 25 years are afforded a meaningful opportunity to obtain release under the Eighth Amendment when parole officials are not required to consider maturity and rehabilitation or the mitigating attributes of youth? i
Docket Entries
2019-03-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2019.
2019-03-04
Waiver of right of respondent State of Florida to respond filed.
2019-02-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 28, 2019)
2019-01-09
Application (18A705) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until February 21, 2019.
2018-12-31
Application (18A705) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 22, 2019 to February 21, 2019, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Budry Michel
Paul Edward Petillo — Office of the Public Defender, Petitioner
Paul Edward Petillo — Office of the Public Defender, Petitioner