| 21-6921 |
Sedale Pervis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err in not finding that promoting respect for the law, in the context of this case is a mitigating factor? |
| 20-1728 |
Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin… |
| 19-7832 |
Sean Wayne Pierce v. California |
California |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actually-innocent constitutional-review conviction criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama mitigating-factor sentence standard-of-review-under-miller-v-alabama status-rather-than-criminal-conduct validity-of-conviction youth-offender |
Whether habeas corpus under Miller v. Alabama was necessary when a significant mitigating factor calls into question the validity of the conviction or… |
| 19-6811 |
Lamont Bernard Heard v. Rick Snyder, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-rule developmental-characteristics eighth-amendment fixed-character life-without-parole mature-adults mitigating-factor national-census transitional-stage youth-offenders youthful-offender |
Should this Court afford Eighth Amendment protection to youthful offenders based on this Court's own precedent and national census that youth is a mit… |