arbitrary-application

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-7026 Jerome Berry v. Teri Lawson, Superintendent, Farmington Correctional Center Missouri 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-application board-of-probation discriminatory-treatment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus missouri-sexual-offenders-program parole sexual-offenders state-courts Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner was entitled to immediate release due to the Missouri Board of Probation and Paroles ar…
19-697 James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Amici (2) aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling Whether a State's application of an aggravating factor to justify the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it makes punish…
18-8164 Geoffrey W. Freeman v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Illinois 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-application civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the statute of limitations for filing a civil rights lawsuit is unconstitutionally vague and arbitrarily applied, violating due process
18-5078 Bruce Pace v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent…