mandatory-life-without-parole
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7028 | Hunter Thomas Boesch v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brain-development cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults late-adolescent-brain-development mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-protections youth | Whether the sentencing protections afforded in Miller v Alabama should be applied to defendants who are emerging adults 18 to 20 years old |
| 21-5792 | Karl Roye v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing | Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp… |
| 19-7243 | Joshua Wolf v. Cindy Griffith, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders mandatory-life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing resentencing sentencing-procedures sixth-amendment | Whether Missouri's decision to order resentencing for juvenile homicide offenders with mandatory 50-year sentences but not for Joshua, a juvenile homi… |