No. 19-5762

Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2019-08-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one
Key Terms:
Punishment
Latest Conference: 2019-11-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they denied --without an evidentiary hearing -- Petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus asserting that Petitioner's life sentence without parole for a murder offense committed at the age of 21 violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they denied -without an evidentiary hearing -Petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus asserting that Petitioner's life sentence without parole for a murder offense committed at the age of 21 violates the Eighth Amendment of the United ; States Constitution. ii

Docket Entries

2019-11-04
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/1/2019.
2019-08-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 30, 2019)

Attorneys

Stevrick Jackson
Stevrick Tavah Jackson — Petitioner
Stevrick Tavah Jackson — Petitioner