| 23A772 |
Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
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capital-sentencing death-penalty eddings-standard eighth-amendment mitigating-circumstances youthful-offender |
Whether a trial court's refusal to consider a defendant's youthful age as a mitigating circumstance in a capital sentencing proceeding violates the Ei… |
| 22-7373 |
Victor M. Miranda-Guerrero v. California |
California |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth and Fourte… |
| 22-6514 |
Santiago Pineda v. California |
California |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-determination jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourt… |
| 22-6488 |
John F. Mosley v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona |
Whether excluding evidence of a history of sexual abuse in Mr. Mosley's family of origin was contrary to Eddings v. Oklahoma |
| 22-6071 |
Manuel Bracamontes v. California |
California |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth and Fourte… |
| 21-8187 |
Jesse Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-standard due-process mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona standard-of-proof |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires the additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) a statut… |
| 21-6669 |
Robert Walter Scully v. California |
California |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances statutory-maximum |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 21-6654 |
Donald H. Davidson, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing-determination |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires the additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond a reasonable doubt b… |
| 21-5672 |
Wayne C. Doty v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing due-process jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Due Process Clause and right to a jury trial require additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond… |
| 20-1156 |
Alan H. Olefsky v. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-discretion administrative-law agency-review disciplinary-action due-process medical-license medical-license-suspension mitigating-circumstances past-discipline |
Whether the IDFPR's Final Order indefinitely suspending Petitioner's medical license for two years pursuant to the first order on remand, or one year … |
| 20-1136 |
Peter Capote v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
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6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment death-penalty judicial-fact-finding judicial-weighing jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment |
Whether the Alabama death penalty sentencing scheme violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial |
| 20-6060 |
Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing |
Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State, 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishm… |
| 20-250 |
Mark Anthony Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
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aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in reinstating a capital sentence issued under Florida's pre-2016 scheme |
| 19-8904 |
William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington traumatic-brain-injury wiggins-v-smith williams-v-taylor |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's opinion contravened Williams v. Taylor and Wiggins v. Smith by failing to find deficient performance where counsel… |
| 19-8473 |
Shawn Rogers v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors apprendi capital-sentencing due-process mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona |
Whether, considering the operation and effect of Florida's capital sentencing scheme, the Due Process Clause requires those latter two determinations … |
| 19-8438 |
Rodney Lyn Emil v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-procedure death-penalty jury-finding jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Is Nevada's capital sentencing procedure unconstitutional after Hurst v. Florida? |
| 19-8239 |
Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Did the Nevada Supreme Court violate Ybarra's constitutional rights by holding that the outweighing determination—a finding that exposed Ybarra to a g… |
| 19-8175 |
Kitrich A. Powell v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
Did the Nevada Supreme Court violate Mr. Powell's constitutional rights by making the outweighing requirement an afterthought for the jury, used only … |
| 19-8090 |
Joseph Weldon Smith v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
Did the Nevada Supreme Court violate Mr. Smith's constitutional rights by making the outweighing requirement an afterthought for the jury, used only t… |
| 19-7973 |
Quincy Chisolm v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder judicial-discretion mitigating-circumstances murder sentencing trial-court-error |
Did the trial Court err in failing to set aside the verdict that a Conviction can the Court of Criminal Appeals to murder? |
| 19-7649 |
Socorro Susan Caro v. California |
California |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c… |
| 19-7647 |
William P. Castillo v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review apprendi apprendi-line capital-punishment capital-sentencing clemons-v-mississippi death-penalty jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence mitigation-evidence reweighing |
Should this Court overrule Clemons v. Mississippi |
| 19-7429 |
Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California |
California |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 19-6101 |
Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty factfinder harm lockett-v-ohio mitigating-circumstances prejudice |
Should the Court recalibrate the frameworks for judging the prejudice or harm of capital sentencing errors in jurisdictions where the factfinder may d… |
| 19-5394 |
Michael Leon Bell v. California |
California |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m… |
| 18-9459 |
Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence |
Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-9464 |
Charles William Finney v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-murder capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-constitution jury-trial jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by requiring the jury to find only aggravating factors … |
| 18-9349 |
Robert Lee McConnell v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-requirement due-process jury-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Whether the Constitution requires—in a state in which a jury is required to find that mitigating circumstances do not outweigh the aggravating circums… |
| 18-8857 |
Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court contravened Strickland by acknowledging counsel made mistakes, but not finding them to be deficient performance even… |
| 18-8753 |
Carl Devon Powell v. California |
California |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c… |
| 18-8002 |
Brad Hunter Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances arbitrary-imposition capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigating-circumstance mitigating-circumstances |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's holding that a capital-sentencing jury permissibly declined to weigh an existent statutory mitigating circumstanc… |
| 18-7442 |
Kevin Underwood v. Mike Carpenter, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey beyond-reasonable-doubt capital-punishment capital-punishment-scheme capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision conflicts with Apprendi v. New Jersey and Ring v. Arizona |
| 18-6884 |
Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a state appellate court from reweighing aggravating and mitigating circumstances and determining that death is t… |
| 18-6882 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Hurst error is harmless in light of the jury's diminished sense of responsibility as an advisory panel under Caldwell v. Mississippi |
| 18-6582 |
Kareem Glass v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rights capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-rights |
where-capital-counsel-induced-petitioner-into-a-waiver |
| 18-5375 |
Christopher Henriquez v. California |
California |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5331 |
Ralph Simon Jeremias v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances confrontation-clause constitutional-standard death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona |
Whether the Constitution requires that the finding that mitigating circumstances do not outweigh aggravating circumstances to impose death be made bey… |