excessive-punishment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6935 Dennis James Gaede v. North Dakota North Dakota 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto excessive-punishment grand-jury north-dakota Whether Gaede's 8th and 14th Amendment Rights to Due Process and to be Free from Excessive Punishment were Violated
23-388 Richard W. Como v. Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement Board Pennsylvania 2023-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process excessive-fines excessive-punishment fourteenth-amendment pension pension-forfeiture public-employee retirement-law Did the Commonwealth Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in forfeiting Mr. Como's entire pension due to criminal convictions as Superintenden…
21-5951 Steven B. Baumgarten v. Erika Evans Washington 2021-10-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment judicial-disqualification mental-illness mental-illness-discrimination perjury-allegations stalking stalking-evidence standing Is the U.S. Constitution and federal case law violated when a trial court erred in finding substantial evidence of two or more distinct, individual, n…
20-7902 John Laponte v. California California 2021-04-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement
19-6922 Charles Edward Bates v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing Whether the lower courts erred in their interpretation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines and punishments as the forfeiture amount…
19-5313 Thomas Arthur Kahlow v. Florida Florida 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment capital-punishment constitutional-limits due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-constitutional-law state-governments Whether the right to due process of law is denied by Florida's imposition of a capital life imprisonment sentence
19-5059 Paul A. Viera v. Florida Florida 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes florida florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-sentencing Whether the right to due process of law guaranteed by the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment is denied by Florida's imposition of a nat…
18-8424 Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is the trial court in error by denying the motion to quash based on errors in the multiple offender charging, pleading and proof?
18-8020 Benjamin Besteder, Jr. v. Sean Bowerman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-evidence appeal civil-rights due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the trial court dismissed his motion for a new trial based on the denial of his righ…