age-consideration

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6499 Nycole Amaury Rosario Sanchez v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor Whether youth (minor age) at the time of the commission of a criminal offense, with its intrinsic characteristics, is inherently a mitigating factor t…
23-7071 Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion advanced-age age-consideration criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit-review incarceration medical-conditions sentencing sentencing-variance variance Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion by its failure to give Mr. Aberant a variance sentence and a sh…
22-5983 Cordavia Daniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) age-consideration criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's consideration of Cordavia's age and mitigating factors
21-5125 Reginald Lamont Thomas v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-consideration civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-council judicial-suspension retroactive-application sentencing-limits statutory-interpretation suspension time-limits How can the judicial council for the Ninth Circuit ratify an application to suspend the time limits of 18 U.S.C. § 3161 for the Eastern District of Ca…
20-5887 Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-02 Denied IFP age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing Whether the sentence given to Mr. Lewis was unconstitutional because it violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when his youthfu…