graham-v-florida

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5002 Joseph Hauschild v. Illinois Illinois 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity meaningful-opportunity-for-release roper-v-simmons sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentence Whether, for a juvenile offender who committed multiple offenses during a single course of conduct, none of them homicide, the Eighth Amendment forbid…
22-1063 Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker Tennessee 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-guidelines term-of-years-sentences Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits term-of-years sentences that effectively deny juvenile offenders a meaningful opportunity for release
21-7052 Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm Whether a 129-year sentence for a non-homicide offense committed as a juvenile violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punish…
20-830 Washington v. Said Omer Ali Washington 2020-12-21 Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c…
20-831 Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio Washington 2020-12-21 Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c…
20-6023 Carlos Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-sentence procedural-bar state-court-decisional-law state-court-law Can the Florida Supreme Court use state court decisional law to procedurally bar a non-homicide juvenile defendant from seeking relief from an illegal…
19-8668 Lemuel Whiteside v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-robbery capital-felony-murder constitutional-rights graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment non-homicide-crime procedural-default Whether the trial court erred in instructing the jury that the petitioner could be sentenced to life imprisonment for a non-homicide crime committed a…
19-7676 Robert Jackson v. Florida Florida 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment graham-v-florida graham-vs-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-rule miller-v-alabama miller-vs-alabama national-consensus parole scientific-evidence Whether Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life imp…
19-6583 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits Whether the proper analysis to determine a threshold showing of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment claim
19-6102 Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should grant petitioner's certificate of appealability pursuant to Miller v. Cockrell, 537 U.S…
18-1500 Jonsha Bell v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-05-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy nonhomicide-offense sentencing sentencing-proportionality Does the Eighth Amendment forbid an aggregate sentence that exceeds the life expectancy of a juvenile nonhomicide offender?
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-8951 Terrance Proctor v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-04-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure discretion due-process eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigation proportionality sentencing-mitigation Are consecutive, fixed term sentences for juveniles unconstitutional at the outset when they amount to the functional equivalent of life without parol…
18-8701 Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. Florida Florida 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim eighth-amendment graham-v-florida habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-offender parole parole-process rehabilitation Whether a state court may resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of the Supreme Court as a ruling on the merits w…
18-1267 Angela Rene Leeman v. Arizona Arizona 2019-04-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama non-homicide-offenses parole-eligibility parole-restriction proportionality proportionality-review Whether consecutive sentences for non-homicide offenses that effectively result in life without parole for a juvenile offender violate the Eighth Amen…
18-7295 Earnest Barnes v. Florida Florida 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama National-Consensus parole scientific-evidence Whether the Eighth Amendment's protection established in Graham and Miller should be expanded beyond age cutoff at eighteen to prohibit mandatory life…