neuroscience
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 19-8712 | Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas | Texas | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | age-of-offender brain-development death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness neuroscience roper-v-simmons | Whether Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future dangerousness is or was used to determine dea… |
| 19-7594 | Felix Lopez-Cabrera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment age-of-culpability age-of-majority criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-sentences national-consensus neuroscience | Whether Supreme Court jurisprudence finding mandatory life sentences for juveniles cruel and unusual under the Eight Amendment, and non-mandatory life… |
| 18-9031 | In Re Michael Brandon Samra | 2019-04-30 | Denied | IFP | brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience | Whether the Eighth Amendment's evolving standards prohibit the execution of offenders who were 19 years old at the time of their crime |