contemporary-standards-of-decency

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-7851 Luis Noel Cruz, aka Noel v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment contemporary-standards-of-decency criminal-procedure due-process individualized-sentencing juvenile-sentencing legislative-trends life-sentence mandatory-minimum miller-rule sentencing-discretion Should the protections of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S. Ct. 2455, 183 L. Ed. 2d 407 (2012), which prohibits mandatory life sentences and req…
18-7503 Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-01-18 Denied Amici (1)IFP contemporary-standards-of-decency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness racial-arbitrariness I. Does the death penalty in and of itself violate the Eighth Amendment in light of contemporary standards of decency and the geographic and racial ar…