evolving-standards
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6885 | Thomas Creech v. Idaho | Idaho | 2025-03-28 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards execution-attempts | Should Resweber be overruled? |
| 24-6510 | James D. Ford v. Florida | Florida | 2025-02-08 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief | Whether Florida's use of the 'conformity clause' in the Florida constitution improperly violates Ford's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and hi… |
| 24-5904 | Allen Ward Cox v. Florida | Florida | 2024-11-04 | Denied | IFP | brain-damage cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment evolving-standards medical-condition mental-impairment | Whether the Petitioner's medical condition involving brain damage and dementia constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment bas… |
| 23-6791 | Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho | Idaho | 2024-02-21 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards judicial-sentencing post-conviction state-court | Whether it comports with due process for a state court to reject as untimely an evolving-standards claim on a theory that would never allow for such a… |
| 21-7314 | William Jones v. Texas | Texas | 2022-03-08 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence criminal-sentencing cumulation-order district-court double-jeopardy evolving-standards judgment juvenile-culpability neuroscience-mitigation newly-discovered-evidence subsequent-prosecution | Is Petitioner actually innocent in a subsequent prosecution when in the previous prosecution another District Court in another county convicted, prono… |
| 20-7665 | Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence | What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses? |
| 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 |
| 25A216 | Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. | Florida | Denied | capital-counsel death-penalty evolving-standards ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires retroactive application of evolving standards of counsel qualifications in capital cases to determine the effecti… |