No. 21-8019

Levelt Dewarren Musgraves v. Wisconsin

Lower Court: Wisconsin
Docketed: 2022-06-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law-application juvenile-lifers parole sentencing sentencing-modification state-court-review
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2022-09-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Wisconsin state courts failed to conduct a complete review of the Public Interest Justice Initiative (PIJI) sentencing issue, and whether the PIJI program lacks legal authority and violates equal protection and non-disclosure rights of juvenile lifers

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. The Wisconsin state courts did not conduct a complete round of the Public Interest Justice Initiative (PIJI) sentencing issue presented before the Milwaukee county circuit court which refuses to address the issue. 2. The state of Wisconsin has attached and established that PIJI as a sentencing matter to be conducted "not unlike" the individualized nature of sentencing in Wisconsin. 3. The PIJI is a sentencing modification program for parole eligible juvenile lifers sentenced in the 1990's, but there is no law or policy within authority of the state of Wisconsin's highest court; no legislative intent or legislation and the program contains non-disclosure, violation of equal protection, and discrimination within a suspect class of the juvenile lifers sentenced in the 1990's. 4. The Wisconsin state courts decision are an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law as determined by the United States Supreme . Court, and is also contrary to it's own state precedent. 2 PARTIES AND RELATED CASES | The petitioner is Levelt Musgraves, proceeding pro se, a juvenile lifer from the state of Wisconsin. The Respondents are the State of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee county district attorney's office, the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, and Phillip Torsrud see April 5, 2021).

Docket Entries

2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-06-16
Waiver of right of respondent Wisconsin to respond filed.
2022-02-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 1, 2022)

Attorneys

Levelt Musgraves
Levelt Musgraves — Petitioner
Levelt Musgraves — Petitioner
Wisconsin
Jacob J. Wittwer — Respondent
Jacob J. Wittwer — Respondent