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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-7467 Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa…