No. 20-6746
Tags: 8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing
Key Terms:
Punishment
Punishment
Latest Conference:
2021-02-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment? |
Docket Entries
2021-03-01
Petition DENIED.
2021-02-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/26/2021.
2020-11-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 1, 2021)
Attorneys
Jonathan Loyd
Dane Kristofor Chase — Chase Law Florida P.A., Petitioner