mitigating-factor

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…