brain-development

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6356 RonAllen Hardy v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brain-development cognitive-maturity cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-principles Whether sentencing a young adult to life without parole violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when the offe…
23-7028 Hunter Thomas Boesch v. Florida Florida 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP brain-development cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults late-adolescent-brain-development mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-protections youth Whether the sentencing protections afforded in Miller v Alabama should be applied to defendants who are emerging adults 18 to 20 years old
22-7625 Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-05-24 Denied IFP brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who …
20-7049 Edwin Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment age-based-sentencing brain-development constitutional-interpretation criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation Whether the Miller ban on mandatory life without parole sentences for juvenile homicide offenders should be extended to youths under the age of 21
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…
20-5217 David Kelsey Sparre v. Florida Florida 2020-07-30 Denied IFP adolescent-brain-development brain-development constitutional-rights first-degree-murder harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing prejudice trial-strategy Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and execute the defense trial strategy results in prejudice?
19-8712 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP age-of-offender brain-development death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness neuroscience roper-v-simmons Whether Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future dangerousness is or was used to determine dea…
19-7574 Luis Beltran v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause provide defendants who were between 18 and 22 an opportunity to demonstrate they are similarly situated,…
18-9031 In Re Michael Brandon Samra 2019-04-30 Denied IFP brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience Whether the Eighth Amendment's evolving standards prohibit the execution of offenders who were 19 years old at the time of their crime
18-9033 Michael Brandon Samra v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-30 Denied IFP brain-development capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards evolving-standards-of-decency juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neuroscientific-research Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty against offenders who were under 21 at the time of their crime
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…
18-7467 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…
18-5276 William Clark v. United States District of Columbia 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old?