| 24A1175 |
Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1111 |
Damon Peterson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
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certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender life-sentence parole-commission |
1) Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued because reasonable jurists would find debatable or wrong the district court's conclusion … |
| 24-6608 |
Felix Pusey v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment firearm-possession juvenile-offender mandatory-minimum second-amendment sixth-amendment |
1. Whether section 790.23(1)(b), Florida Statutes, which criminalizes the possession and ownership of a firearm by people under the age of 24 who have… |
| 24-6050 |
Lolita Barthel v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offender sentence-review |
1. Under the Eighth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause, Are juvenile offenders entitled to a review of his or her sentence if they are serving … |
| 23A1071 |
Marlo Helmstetter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
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booker-decision compassionate-release juvenile-offender miller-v-alabama section-3582 sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 23A475 |
Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
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eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-retroactivity post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
In the landmark decision of Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010), this Court held that, for a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide, the Eigh… |
| 22-7625 |
Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment |
Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who … |
| 22-7395 |
Gudonavon J. Taylor v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-rule burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-fairness juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders perjured-testimony presumption-of-innocence |
(1) Whether the procedure rule under Crim.R. 33(B) should be deemed oppressive and arbitrary for juvenile offenders?
(2) Whether a juvenile offender'… |
| 22-6217 |
Steven Wayne Keefe v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adequate-defense ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mental-health mental-health-expert miller-v-alabama sentencing |
This petition presents the following question: whether the "basic tools of an adequate defense" include expert assistance in "evaluation, preparation,… |
| 22-6027 |
Cedric Joseph Rue, Jr. v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-interpretation juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing-discretion |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-6023 |
Tonatihu Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama parole-abolition sentencing-reform |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 21-7457 |
Gregory Wynn v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Whether, in light of the uncontroverted evidence of Gregory Wynn's potential for maturity and positive change as an adult, his sentence of life impris… |
| 21-7185 |
Brian Arthur Tate v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders liberty-interest parole parole-hearing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, extends beyond a juvenile o… |
| 20-6904 |
Billy S. Jeffries v. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, et al. |
Kentucky |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto juvenile juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration stare-decisis statutory-scheme |
In Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84, 105 (2003), this Court found that Alaska's sex offender registration statute was a "civil regulatory scheme" which was "… |
| 20-6523 |
Jason Lamont Brooks v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-time-bar civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-offender lwop-sentence meaningful-opportunity montgomery-miller-precedent standing |
1. Does the AEDPA time-bar apply to a "protected class of citizen's" claim for relief?
2. Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit a "de jure"/"de facto" L… |
| 20-6396 |
Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-review jury-finding juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review.
2. Whether a judge's decis… |
| 20-6376 |
Sean Jason Harstine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-defendant appeal breaking-and-entering criminal-history due-process juvenile-offender juvenile-offenses point-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR TO COUNT CRIMINAL HISTORY POINTS FOR FOUR 2004 BREAKING AND ENTERING (B&E) CONVITIONS WHEN THE DEFENDANT WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD… |
| 20-6116 |
Terry Joseph Wernicke, Jr. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder juvenile-offender life-sentence parole |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5887 |
Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing |
I. The Constitution prohibits punishments that are cruel and unusual. In addition to the crime committed, the juvenile offender's age must also be tak… |
| 20-390 |
Brandan A. Mack v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography civil-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process felony-penalty juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration |
Where a state enacts long-term sex offender registration requirements which are enforced under threat of felony criminal offense, may the state subjec… |
| 19-8849 |
Linda Pedroza v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing parole proportionality second-degree-homicide sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position … |
| 19-8139 |
Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion |
Did the Fourth Circuit commit errror by not granting Mr. 1.
Cerritos a COA under 28 tKS.C... §2253 (c)(2), after the denial of
his 28 U.S.C. §2255 mot… |
| 19-7951 |
Rashad Taylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence miller-v-alabama |
1. Does imposition of a mandatory sentence of forty years on a juvenile convicted of a homicide -a sentence imposed pursuant to a statutory scheme tha… |
| 19-7799 |
Desmond Baker v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole sentencing-review |
Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States juvenile homicide offender, who has certain nonhomicide felony convictions, to s… |
| 19-6710 |
Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur |
This Court has consistently recognized that when a prevailing party's unilateral action renders a case moot before appellate review concludes, the pro… |
| 19-91 |
Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen |
Missouri |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
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consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-relief juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole parole-eligibility |
Under the Eighth Amendment, may a State sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison und… |
| 19-5007 |
Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility |
Question #1:
The Northern District Court reasoned that because K.S. told '
other people (speculating what K.S. told other witnesses ), "there
was ab… |
| 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? |
| 18-9033 |
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 |
In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … |
| 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 |
In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … |
| 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 |
1. May a state court resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits when this Cou… |
| 18-7781 |
Juan Ramone Lopez v. Jeff Noble, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-misrepresentation age-misrepresentation-at-arrest age-of-majority birth-certificate birth-date-verification civil-rights constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process evidence foreign-national habeas-corpus juvenile-offender standing state-courts |
SHOULD A PERSON'S MISREPRESENTATION OF HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST OR THE PERSON'S BIRTH COMPLETE ERASE HIS DATE OF BIRTH IN A COURT OF LAW?
II… |
| 18-6646 |
John Edward Davis v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
autopsy-photographs coercion constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confession involuntary-statements juvenile-offender juvenile-offender-rights juvenile-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-testify self-incrimination |
Question #1: Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent when it upheld the denial of a post-conviction claim all… |
| 18-5722 |
Keith Robert Lugo v. California |
California |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedures-act board-of-prison-terms constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-offender juvenile-parole parole senate-bill-261 some-evidence standard-of-proof |
Whether the Board of Prison Terms Violated Senate Bill 261 for Failing to Apply the Legally Correct Standard of Analysis; and, in Doing so, Failed to … |
| 18-203 |
Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sent… |
| 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 … |