No. 18-8740

Michael Manley v. Delaware

Lower Court: Delaware
Docketed: 2019-04-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 8th-amendment appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-creation judicial-overreach life-without-parole mandatory-sentence
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2019-05-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey's due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey’s due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence? Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Manley’s Eighth and Fourteenth amendment rights by creating a mandatory sentence of life without parole that precludes appellate review? i

Docket Entries

2019-05-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2019.
2019-04-12
Waiver of right of respondent State of Delaware to respond filed.
2019-04-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 9, 2019)
2019-02-26
Application (18A867) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until April 5, 2019.
2019-02-21
Application (18A867) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from March 6, 2019 to May 5, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Michael Manley
Christopher Stephen KoysteLaw Office of Christopher. S. Koyste, LLC, Petitioner
Christopher Stephen KoysteLaw Office of Christopher. S. Koyste, LLC, Petitioner
State of Delaware
Maria Teresa KnollOffice of the Attorney GeneralState of Delaware,, Respondent
Maria Teresa KnollOffice of the Attorney GeneralState of Delaware,, Respondent