mandatory-life-sentence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5119 Stacey Williams, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation due-process
23-7520 Toran Peterson v. Esmaeili Emami, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied IFP administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exhaustion juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence mental-health prison Whether Michigan's involuntary mental health treatment hearings comply with the mandatory language of the statute and prison policy directive, and whe…
23-6942 Paulino Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a petitioner demonstrates a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right warranting a certificate of appealability
23A789 Charles Edward Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete §2255-motion constitutional-retroactivity jurisdictional-limitation mandatory-life-sentence residual-clause successive-habeas Whether a federal appellate court lacks jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) to review a successive habeas motion challenging a mandatory life sen…
23-6390 Jose Guadalupe Ramirez v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-brain-development due-process expert-assistance indigent-defendant mandatory-life-sentence right-to-present-defense sentencing Does a trial court deprive an indigent defendant of due-process, right-to-present-defense by failing to appoint an adolescent-brain-development expert…
22-7769 Tyrone Desante Morant v. Bill Stange, Warden Missouri 2023-06-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion Mandatory-life-without-parole-for-juvenile-offenders
22-7303 Patrick Dewayne Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-law-change first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
21-6861 Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-brain compassionate-release extraordinary-circumstances mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimums neuroscience neuroscience-evidence procedural-error section-3553 section-3582 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform Whether Booker's invalidation of the mandatory sentencing regime, and post-Booker neuroscience facts about the adolescent brain constitutes extraordin…
21-5100 Matthew James Haymond, Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing drug-offenses fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining retroactive-application sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Haymond was improperly denied First-Step-Act-relief
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?
19-8770 Carl St. Preux v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2255 circuit-split drug-conviction federal-habeas-corpus federal-sentencing habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence post-conviction-relief prior-state-convictions sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations Whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e) bars a defendant from seeking re-sentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 after successfully challenging a prior state conviction …
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 error by not granting Mr. Cerritos a COA under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2), after the denial of his 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion whe…
19-6115 Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid…
18-7803 Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida Florida 2019-02-07 Denied IFP eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing Is it time to extend the Eighth Amendment protections enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to late adolescent homicide offenders?
18-7623 James Goolsby v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582-c-2 appellate-procedure dillion-v-united-states exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing misapplication-of-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice official-victim-enhancement recall-of-mandate retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in refusing to recall the mandate on the direct appeal to prevent a miscarriage of j…
18-6554 Walter Collins v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mandatory-life-sentence opportunity-for-release reasonable-opportunity-for-release Whether a mandatory life sentence for a crime committed by a juvenile that does not allow him a reasonable opportunity for release violates the prohib…
18-6155 Christian Lemus Cerna, aka Leopardo, aka Bago, aka Vago, aka Gatito, aka Christian Josue Lemus Alfaro v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-evidence-disclosure brady-violation brady-violations court-of-appeals criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-sentencing evidence-admission false-testimony jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses mandatory-life-sentence severance-of-defendants uncharged-conduct-evidence uncharged-murder-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decisions
18-6032 D. L. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP does-wisconsin's-sentencing-scheme-apply-to-juveni federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence martinez-trevino-doctrine martinez-v-ryan miller-v-alabama procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings trevino-v-thaler Can the exceptions excusing procedural default of ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims in the Martinez/Trevino doctrine apply to State Habea…
18-5384 Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States First Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP 8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids the creation of a de-facto mandatory life without parole sentence through stacking 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charges
18-5153 Arthur Wayne Kniffley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ball-v-united-states blockburger-test child-pornography criminal-conviction double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,child-pornography,fifth-amendment, double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,child-pornography, fifth-amendment mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a conviction for producing child pornography violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the defendant was previously c…