parole-ineligibility

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-846 John Montenegro Cruz v. Arizona Arizona 2021-12-07 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity state-court-decisions supreme-court Whether the rule in Simmons v. South Carolina, as applied in Lynch v. Arizona, must be applied retroactively to cases pending on collateral review
21-847 Jonathan Ian Burns v. Arizona Arizona 2021-12-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity supreme-court Whether this Court's decision in Lynch applied a settled rule of federal law that must be applied to cases pending on collateral review in Arizona
20-7373 Christopher Mathew Payne v. Arizona Arizona 2021-03-09 Denied IFP resulting in prejudice capital-punishment death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions parole-ineligibility simmons-precedent Whether a death sentence may be carried out when defense counsel unreasonably fails to inform the jury of parole ineligibility under Simmons
19-1100 Leroy D. Cropper v. Arizona Arizona 2020-03-09 Denied Amici (2) capital-punishment death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions parole-eligibility parole-ineligibility simmons-v-south-carolina sixth-amendment Whether a death sentence may be carried out when defense counsel unreasonably fails to inform the jury of parole ineligibility under Simmons v. South …
18-6588 Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe…