No. 20-7851
Luis Noel Cruz, aka Noel v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 8th-amendment contemporary-standards-of-decency criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing legislative-trends life-sentence mandatory-minimum miller-rule sentencing-discretion
Key Terms:
Punishment HabeasCorpus
Punishment HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference:
2021-05-20
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Should the protections of Miller v. Alabama be extended to 18-year-olds?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Should the protections of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012), which prohibits mandatory life sentences and requires an individualized sentencing proceeding for a juvenile facing a life-sentence, be extended to include 18-year-olds? i
Docket Entries
2021-05-24
Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor and Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2021-05-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/20/2021.
2021-05-03
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-04-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 26, 2021)
Attorneys
Luis Noel Cruz
William Theodore Koch III — Koch, Garg & Brown, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent