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 | In Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), this Court held that in cases where a capital defendant's future dangerousness is at issue, due pro… |
| 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 | In Simmons v. South Carolina , 512 U.S. 154 (1994), this Court held that in cases where a capital defendant's future dangerousness is at issue, due pr… |
| 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, 512 U.S.… |
| 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… |