| 23-830 |
Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile to be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discret… |
| 23-5700 |
Paul Gray v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-v-louisiana nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Does the State of Louisiana have the right to invoke 'judicial economy' as a ruse for violations of constitutional guarantees? |
| 22-7492 |
Cedric Winston O'Neal v. Craig Hughes, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-penalty mandatory-transfer miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana |
Are Mandatory Transfer Schemes also apart of SCOTUS' 8th Amendment ban of mandatory penalty schemes against children? |
| 22-7487 |
Travis Carter v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment standing state-v-reddick takings |
Does the State of Louisiana have the right to invoke 'judicial-economy' as a defense for constitutional-violations |
| 21-7977 |
Jason Albert Halda v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing disproportionality eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing miller-montgomery-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines |
Is Jason Halda entitled to a resentencing? |
| 21-7217 |
Thomas Allen Twobabies v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act mcgirt-decision montgomery-v-louisiana native-american-law oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals retroactivity schriro-v-summerlin supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes for Major Crimes Act purposes |
| 21-6871 |
Alan Price v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance McCoy-retroactivity mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel substantive-rule |
Whether McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct 1500 (2018), adopts a new substantive rule that applies retroactively to cases on collateral review? |
| 20-8208 |
Ashanti Lusby v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-factors miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing-hearing |
How to determine when a juvenile sentenced to life in prison without parole or its functional equivalent prior to Miller v. Alabama is entitled to a n… |
| 20-1315 |
Louisiana v. Aaron G. Hauser |
Louisiana |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-miller-standard montgomery-v-louisiana rehabilitation rehabilitation-evidence sentencing-discretion |
Does a sentencing court run afoul of Montgomery and Miller by weighing the heinous facts of a juvenile's violent crime more heavily than any subsequen… |
| 20-6947 |
Alphonso Cave v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual-disability on the merits for cases on coll… |
| 20-6887 |
Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall v. Florida |
| 20-6879 |
John D. Freeman v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana postconviction-procedure retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule |
Whether Florida's postconviction procedures governing intellectual-disability claims fail to vindicate defendants' substantive Eighth-Amendment rights… |
| 20-6775 |
Dantazias Raines v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sixth-amendment |
Does a juvenile have a Sixth Amendment right to have a jury decide whether he is permanently incorrigible, and thus eligible to be sentenced to life w… |
| 20-6307 |
Gary Lawrence v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Hall v. Florida applies retroactively on collateral review |
| 19-8057 |
Aaron Moran Brown v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment de-facto-life-sentence eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-system |
Does the substantive rule of Miller v. Alabama apply to de facto life sentences for juveniles? |
| 19-7751 |
Christopher Michael Thrasher v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-hearing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a factual finding as to which class a juvenile homicide offender belongs before sentencing the juvenile to life … |
| 19-7609 |
Juan Mauricio Castillo v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-courts statutory-interpretation substantive-rule welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Whether due process requires the states to retroactively apply a decision narrowing the interpretation of a substantive criminal statute |
| 19-7491 |
In Re William James Berry Sr. |
|
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
byford-v-state due-process habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-court-remedies welch-v-united-states |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the Supreme Court cases of Montgomery v. Louisiana and Welch v. United States do not require retroa… |
| 19-7437 |
Tony Sparks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama does not extend to sentences imposed upon ju… |
| 19-7292 |
Jerry Franks v. Emma Collins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-review retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause supreme-court-retroactivity trevino-v-thaler |
Did Montgomery v. Louisiana announce a new watershed rule of criminal procedure that applies retroactively when ruling the Supremacy Clause applies to… |
| 19-6136 |
Thomas A. Bias v. Jimmy Martin, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-sentencing,eighth-amendment,fourteenth-am life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana supreme-court-precedent |
Is the state of Oklahoma unconstitutionally imposing continued imprisonment on juvenile's sentenced to life, in disregard of the United States Supreme… |
| 19-6092 |
Jonothan E. Prather v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana petition-timeliness retroactivity timeliness |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the Petitioner's petition as untimely and in finding that the newly recognized constitutional right set f… |
| 19-399 |
Barry C. Garcia v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
discretionary-sentencing juvenile-offenses juvenile-offenses-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole resentencing-hearing sentencing |
Whether the constitutional standard announced in Miller v. Alabama applies only to mandatory sentences |
| 19-5932 |
Chavez Myers v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights comprehensive-youth-justice-amendment-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana standing youth-reform-act |
Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in denying Chavez Myers' § 23-110 motion |
| 19-5882 |
Rome Richard Chacon v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Whether the federal constitution requires a state court to retroactively apply a narrowing interpretation of a substantive criminal statute |
| 19-250 |
Oklahoma v. Jesse Allen Johnson |
Oklahoma |
2019-08-26 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment jury-factfinding jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment require that the individualized sentencing proceeding necessary to impose a life-without-parole sentence upon a juvenile homi… |
| 19-5521 |
Steven Michael Cox v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-standard welch-v-united-states |
Whether the federal constitution requires states to retroactively apply a decision narrowing the interpretation of a substantive criminal statute |
| 18-9546 |
Everett Charles Wills, II v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
collateral-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure danforth-v-minnesota federal-law greene-v-fisher mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana post-conviction-proceedings postconviction-review retroactive-application retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules teague-rule teague-v-lane watershed-rule |
Whether States must apply a 'watershed rule' under Teague v. Lane in post-conviction proceedings |
| 18-9521 |
Christopher Anthony Jones v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-exception welch-v-united-states |
Whether due process requires the states to retroactively apply a decision narrowing the interpretation of a substantive criminal statute |
| 18-9501 |
Bruce Mayo Ennis v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Whether the federal constitution requires a state court to retroactively apply a new interpretation of a substantive criminal statute that narrows its… |
| 18-9436 |
William Edward Branham v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states |
Whether the federal constitution requires states to retroactively apply a narrowing interpretation of a substantive criminal statute |
| 18-8117 |
Brandon Pete v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-proportionality juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana offense-level-43 sentencing-guidelines title-18 |
May a juvenile convicted as an adult of a non-premeditated homicide be sentenced to life-without-parole under Offense Level 43 and bear the burden to … |
| 18-8041 |
Mark Johnson v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adolescent-culpability age-as-factor age-of-culpability brain-development criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana roper-v-simmons |
Whether the Court's rulings regarding when age is a factor in determining culpability apply to those under the age of 25, or is the age lower, but not… |
| 18-8027 |
Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari |
Does Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? |
| 18-8007 |
Kenneth R. Beagle v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-ruling Alleyne-v-United-States constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process Montgomery-v-Louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-doctrine supreme-court teague-doctrine Teague-v-Lane |
Did the court in Montgomery v. Louisiana identify, for the first time, a third criteria for determining which of its rulings may be applied retroactiv… |
| 18-7917 |
Najee Sharif Wilkins v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause cross-examination eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-eligibility witness-testimony |
Does Petitioner's sentence violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 18-1016 |
Lloyd Gene Beam v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution judicial-impartiality judicial-impartiality-standard-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application state-collateral-review teague-retroactivity teague-v-lane watershed-rule watershed-rules |
Was the new standard from People v. Stevens a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court interpreting the federal Constitution? |
| 18-6889 |
Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity |
Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-6469 |
Tyrone D. Morant v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro… |
| 18-6405 |
Sydney L. Thieszen v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana tatum-v-arizona |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile convicted of a homicide offense to be sentenced to the functional equivalent of life without parole |
| 18-6226 |
Roderick K. Forest v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing |
Does the Eighth Amendment require juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing proceed… |
| 18-6178 |
Joseph A. Clark v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro… |
| 18-6149 |
Christopher Polk v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro… |
| 18-6088 |
Joseph Burris v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires juvenile defendants who received mandatory life without parole sentences to receive adversarial resentencing pro… |
| 18-5986 |
Damon L. Caldwell v. Stanley Payne, Superintendent, Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing realistic-opportunity resentencing resentencing-proceeding |
Whether Missouri's parole laws and procedures violate the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide juvenile offenders a meaningful and realistic opportu… |
| 18-5735 |
Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane |
Whether the Apprendi-Alleyne rule should be applied retroactively |
| 18-5698 |
Devonte Brown v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing |
Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child… |
| 18-217 |
Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Granted |
Amici (13)Relisted (9) |
collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that Montgomery v. Louisiana modified and expanded the rule announced in Miller v. Alabama |
| 18-5654 |
Willie Lee Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mathis v. United States is retroactive to cases on collateral review |
| 18-5641 |
Pressley Bernard Alston v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment,14th-amendment,capital-punishment,hu capital-defendant capital-punishment Does the partial retroactivity formula designed by Does the partial retroactivity formula employed fo due-process,federal-constitutional-rights,post-con federal-constitutional-violations hurst-v-florida montgomery-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana,retroactivity,sentencing,su post-conviction-review retroactivity state-law-waiver supremacy-clause |
Does a state capital defendant's state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking relief… |
| 18-5634 |
Kipland Phillip Kinkel v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-illness miller-montgomery-standard miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-due-process |
Does a treatable, but not curable, mental illness constitute irreparable corruption' under Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana? |
| 18-5402 |
Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of decis… |
| 18-98 |
Jerrard T. Cook, aka Jerrad T. Cook, aka Jerrard Cook aka Jerrard Tramaine Cook, aka J-Fat v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibits juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sentencing sentencing-authority |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible in order to impose a sent… |