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24-600 Quiotis C., Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) batson-challenge constitutional-rights jury-trial juvenile-justice prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment Whether juveniles are guaranteed a Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial in juvenile court proceedings when prosecutors can unilaterally deny such a r…
24A80 Steven Cuellar v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process gang-enhancement juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a state criminal trial court's finding of a juvenile defendant's gang membership, unsupported by sufficient evidence, violates the defendant's…
23-7814 James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing Whether sentences of life without parole, as applied to juvenile offenders, violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment…
23-7303 Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires the protections granted under Miller v. Alabama to be extende…
23-6988 Anthony Shief v. Illinois Illinois 2024-03-14 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires Miller protections for juvenile offenders who receive de facto lif…
23-6606 In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Question not identified
23-6431 Mariano Madrid v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-law judicial-review juvenile-justice legal-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person who was a juvenile at the time of the o…
23-471 Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama Alabama 2023-11-03 Denied 8th-amendment age-discrimination capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection juvenile-justice Does Alabama's exclusion of 18-year-olds from jury service, coupled with its permitting them to be tried as adults, deny 18-year-old defendants their …
23-82 Joshua Isaiah Joyner v. Texas Texas 2023-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claims without requiring the trial court to …
22-7753 Jane Doe, Female Juvenile v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-juvenile-act juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-v-alabama ripeness transfer-to-adult-proceedings When a juvenile is charged with first-degree murder, does the transfer to adult proceedings violate the juvenile's Eighth Amendment rights because the…
22-7492 Cedric Winston O'Neal v. Craig Hughes, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-penalty mandatory-transfer miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana Are Mandatory Transfer Schemes also apart of SCOTUS' 8th Amendment ban of mandatory penalty schemes against children?
22-7197 Bernard A. Brandon v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coercion criminal-procedure custody juvenile-justice miranda-rights probation Whether an interrogation in a secured facility between a probationer and armed law enforcement is custodial for Miranda purposes
22-6807 Antonio McGhee v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing Whether the post-conviction court erred in concluding that the petitioners were not entitled to relief under the Court's opinion in Miller v. Alabama
22-6431 Philip Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment
22-6134 Eugene Riley III v. Illinois Illinois 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines Did the State Court violate the U.S. Constitution when it imposed a 32 year sentence when it disregarded the mitigating factors laid out in Miller v. …
22-5947 Kevin Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2022-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias Whether the retrial and death sentence of a 19-year-old offender with mental impairments remedied the constitutional violation from the first trial wi…
22-5489 Under Seal v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-detention-act malicious-wounding mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether Virginia's crime of Malicious Wounding, Va. Code 18.2-51, is a crime of violence under the categorical approach, thereby implicating the Juven…
22-5465 LaRoyce McFadden v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process interrogation-rights involuntary-confession juvenile-justice juvenile-suspect police-interrogation police-procedure right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether a murder conviction based on a 17-year-old boy's statements made to police after he was held incommunicado for over 24 hours, the police ignor…
22-5385 J. S. v. Texas Texas 2022-08-19 Denied IFP confrontation criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice kent-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confrontation extends to a hearing on whether to certify a child as an adult
22-5354 Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-08-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-rule rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the juvenile life-without-parole sentence is unconstitutional, whether the court abused discretion in sentencing, whether the court relied on …
22-5369 Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement Question not identified
21-7676 Robert Christopher Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-challenge Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment
21-7596 Janai Meeks v. Butte County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions detention due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdictional-issues juvenile-justice legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions Whether the juvenile court erred in ordering the placement of the petitioner in a juvenile detention facility without due process
21-7570 Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-04-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing Should this Court review the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to deny the Petitioner the right to have his unwarranted guilty plea looked in…
21-7221 Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was 'greater than necessary' considering his troubled childhood
21-6719 N. R. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a retroactive imposition of registration obligations on a person adjudicated of a sex offense …
21-6528 Tushkahomma J. Leon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-06 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure juvenile-justice mcgirt-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
21-5498 Raymond Concepcion v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-court juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality youth youth-culpability Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of their…
21-5391 Jermontae Moss v. Georgia Georgia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment family-violence felony-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion Does a court violate Miller when it refuses to consider childhood trauma as mitigating when sentencing a child to life without parole?
21-5407 Robin Rick Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2021-08-17 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama proportionality-review roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's decision to not extend the principle of Miller v. Alabama to 18-20 year olds conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court pr…
20-1645 Don Wilburn Collins v. Texas Texas 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto juvenile-jurisdiction juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-jurisdiction Did the Texas appellate courts fail to realize that the retroactive expansion of jurisdiction over a previously exempt juvenile for capital murder vio…
20-7516 Josue Portillo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing Whether, absent proof of incorrigibility, a district court can sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating …
20-6746 Jonathan Loyd v. Florida Florida 2020-12-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment?
20-819 Duy T. Mai v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-ban juvenile-commitment juvenile-justice mental-health second-amendment standing Can the Second Amendment tolerate a lifetime firearm ban on Mr. Mai, a mentally healthy, stable, and law-abiding individual, because of a juvenile inv…
20-6626 Ihab Masalmani v. Michigan Michigan 2020-12-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-hearing Whether the government must bear the burden of proof at a Miller hearing that a juvenile is irreparably corrupt, consistent with juveniles' rights to …
20-5491 M. C. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment delinquent-acts due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment juvenile-detention juvenile-justice punishment Is a child imprisoned for delinquent acts 'punished' within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment?
19-8551 Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas Kansas 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing Does a life sentence without parole for a 19-year-old violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment?
19-8448 Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing Whether an 18-year-old defendant's de facto life sentence violates the Illinois proportionate penalties clause
19-1278 Hunter Fussell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-05-12 Denied Response Waived automatic-transfer child-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer liberty-interest state-statute Whether the Due Process Clause requires that a child receive an individualized hearing before being placed in criminal court to be tried as an adult
19-8231 Juvenile Male v. United States Second Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer prosecutorial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing transfer-hearing Whether the refusal of the United States Attorney to detail the defendant's role in weighing his potential for rehabilitation in the interest of justi…
19-8183 Jose Nogales v. California California 2020-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing Whether the retroactive application of California's Senate Bill No. 1391 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8058 Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity Whether New Jersey's revised juvenile waiver statute (N.J.S.A. 2A:4A-26.1(c)) which prohibits the Family Court from waiving its jurisdiction over any …
19-7887 Juvenile Female v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-status congress-intent delinquency-prevention district-court-discretion due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act juvenile-offenders juvenile-transfer sentencing supreme-court-precedent transfer-to-adult-status Whether a district court errs when it gives too much weight to the seriousness of charged offenses in deciding whether to transfer a juvenile to adult…
19-7688 Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-standard miller-v-alabama rehabilitation rehabilitation-needs sentencing sentencing-discretion transfer Whether the issues and evidence related to a juvenile offender's decertification (transfer) decision are relevant to the juvenile offender's resentenc…
19-7198 B. T. D. v. Alabama Alabama 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer serious-physical-injury standing vagueness Does a child have due process rights to a judicial determination of whether his/her case should remain in juvenile court or should be transferred to a…
19-6057 Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the imposition of life sentences on juvenile offenders convicted …
18-9839 Robert E. King v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-27 Denied IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice post-conviction-relief racial-discrimination Did Oklahoma's Appellate Court deprive Robert E. King the right to equal protection
18-9451 Denzel Pittman v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process illinois-law judicial-mandate juvenile-justice mental-health petition-for-leave-to-appeal second-amendment self-regulation standing supreme-court takings Whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess firearms for self-defense outside the home
18-8493 Jeremel Remymartin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-firearm-statute criminal-law-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation youthful-offender Whether a youthful offender conviction can be used for purposes of a felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm-and-ammunition statute
18-7845 Philip Andra Grigsby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law contact-restrictions court-of-appeals due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice minor-children parental-rights Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying a parent c…
18-7467 Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa…
18-7459 Michael J. Greene v. William O. Huffman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice sentencing standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice standing state-law Whether the juvenile rights of the petitioner were violated under the Juvenile Rights Act, 14-F-13 of the state code
18-7217 C. G., a Minor v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-01-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial juvenile-justice state-law Does a state law that completely bans jury trials for juveniles charged with crimes violate the federal constitutional rights to a jury trial, due pro…
18-7019 Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden Nevada 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing Does the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S. Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825, create a categorical bar against the applic…
18-6849 Steven James v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-rights jdb-v-north-carolina jury-instructions juvenile-brain-science juvenile-homicide juvenile-justice juvenile-rights miller-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity sentencing-standards Whether the Massachusetts statute M.G.L. c.278 sec.33E and the state court judge's decision denying discretionary appellate review for juvenile homici…
18-6093 Brian Tate v. Maryland Maryland 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights developmental-capacity diminished-capacity due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-defendant juvenile-justice maryland-rule-4-242(c) mental-illness Whether the Due Process Clause requires a state court to conduct an inquiry on the record into the effects of a juvenile defendant's age, mental healt…
18-6027 Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona Arizona 2018-09-18 Denied IFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing Is it permissible under the 8th amendment to impose an adult sentence on a minor for a non-dangerous, non-repetitive offense?
18-5698 Devonte Brown v. Ohio Ohio 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child…
18-192 J. B. R. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied age-of-criminal-responsibility constitutional-limits constitutional-punishment criminal-prosecution death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-imprisonment prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation statutory-punishment Whether the Due Process Clause forbids the Government from prosecuting an individual who was a juvenile at the time of the crime under a statute that …
18-5276 William Clark v. United States District of Columbia 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old?
18-5211 Taylor B. v. California California 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice miranda-rights police-interrogation when-child-interrogated-miranda-waiver