mandatory-life-imprisonment
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-5403 | Dimarzio Swade Sanchez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions mandatory-life-imprisonment sixth-amendment | Whether Sanchez's conviction was in contravention of historical jurisprudence and the Sixth Amendment when the district court failed to instruct the j… |
| 19-7574 | Luis Beltran v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing | Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause provide defendants who were between 18 and 22 an opportunity to demonstrate they are similarly situated,… |
| 18-7034 | Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole | Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole s… |
| 18-6036 | Donald S. Harden v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether proof of proximate cause is required for the 'death results' sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B) |