executive-clemency
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A445 | Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Application | criminal-conviction death-penalty double-jeopardy executive-clemency federal-prosecution fifth-amendment | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment precludes a defendant from being convicted of two separate offenses arising from the same cr… | |
| 24-6266 | Jody Lee Miles v. Maryland | Maryland | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law court-proceedings defendant-rights executive-clemency judicial-review separation-of-powers | Does the doctrine of the separation of powers allow for an act of mock clemency in which a member of the executive branch interferes with ongoing cour… |
| 23-7381 | Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Arizona Office of the Attorney General, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights clemency constitutional-claims constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection executive-clemency habeas-corpus special-action special-action-relief | Whether the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying his request for a commutation hearing without … |
| 23A276 | Michael Duane Zack v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process executive-clemency fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-disability | Whether the Due Process Clause requires that death-sentenced individuals have meaningful access to executive clemency proceedings that afford an oppor… | |
| 19-7244 | David Anson Alandt v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-01-10 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence actual-innocence-claims constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding executive-clemency habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-appeal | Whether Arkansas' criminal court system provides a remedy for claims of actual innocence based on newly discovered evidence |