constitutional-sentencing

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
24-6387	Raymond Bradley v. Florida	Florida	2025-01-24	Denied	IFP	constitutional-sentencing criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum proportionality-principle youth-consideration	Whether the mandatory penalty scheme prevents a sentencer from considering a juvenile offender's youth in imposing a life sentence with a 25-year mini…
22-7481	Anthony Allen v. Illinois	Illinois	2023-05-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-counsel appellate-representation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-challenge constitutional-sentencing ineffective-assistance smith-vs-bailey substantive-law successive-petition	Whether appointed Appellate Counsel's missapprehended the law and facts by failure to brief and raise the issues on appeal constitutes unreasonable if…
18-8753	Carl Devon Powell v. California	California	2019-04-10	Denied	IFP	aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment	Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…