No. 21-6632

Charles Dalton Shoemake v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2021-12-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exemplary-prison-record juvenile-sentencing life-with-parole proportionality rehabilitation
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2022-01-07
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Charles Dalton Shoemake's life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he committed at the age of seventeen is disproportionate under the Eighth Amendment

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Given his exemplary prison record and demonstrated rehabilitation, whether Charles Dalton Shoemake’s life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he committed at the age of seventeen is disproportionate under the Eighth | Amendment? ' | i

Docket Entries

2022-01-10
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
2021-12-20
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2021-11-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 18, 2022)

Attorneys

Charles Dalton Shoemake
Stacy Leah FerraroStacy Ferraro, Petitioner
Mississippi
Ashley Lauren SulserOffice of the Mississippi Attorney General, Respondent