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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-878 | Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio | Ohio | 2026-01-22 | Pending | constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire | Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions. | |
| 25-6230 | McKinley Kelly v. Indiana | Indiana | 2025-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation sentencing-procedure | Whether the sentencing procedure mandated by Indiana Code Sec. 35-38-l-7.1(A) and utilized by the state trial court in imposing Kelly 's sentence, whi… |
| 25-5636 | Gordon M. Mayhew v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process first-amendment free-exercise probation-conditions rehabilitation religious-liberty | 1. Whether, consistent with the Free Exercise clause (App. B-l) and Due Process (App. B-3, B-4) (Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments), a State may compe… |
| 25-5136 | Christopher Thomas Scamahorn v. Florida | Florida | 2025-07-17 | Denied | IFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders meaningful-opportunity rehabilitation | Question 1: Whether under the Eighth Amendment as applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibi… |
| 25-5105 | Anthony Michael Laporte v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons extraordinary-compelling-reason mental-health-treatment rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity | 1. Can rehabilitation efforts, when combined with other issues, constitute an extraordinary and compelling reason to reduce a sentence? 2. Can the di… |
| 24A1175 | Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits sentencing a juvenile offender to life without parole based solely on the nature of the crime without meaningfu… | |
| 24-5822 | Fernando De La Torre v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-reform first-step-act incarceration-policy judicial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing-reduction | Does the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provision allow for judicial discretion in resentencing based on changed incarceration policies and reh… |
| 24-5369 | Tommy T. Branch v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covid-19 imprisonment legislative-response rehabilitation sentencing-disparity term-reduction | Question not identified. |
| 23-7440 | Michael Paul Puzey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-review rehabilitation sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act's compassionate release provision should be interpreted to allow for the consideration of a defendant's rehabilitation and … |
| 23A890 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-07 | Denied | capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced individual who has demonstrated full rehabilitation and for whom the penolog… | |
| 23-7153 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-07 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution | When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica… |
| 23-6739 | John Richard Brinson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness | Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable? |
| 23-6469 | Eric Kimble v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | IFP | capital-habeas capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction rehabilitation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether trial counsel's failure to conduct any investigation or seek any expert assistance, including mental health expertise, at Kimble's 1981 death … |
| 23-6164 | Albert Carrasco, v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing sex-offender supervised-release | Whether a supervised-release condition prohibiting a low-level sex offender from living in most urban and suburban areas is substantively unreasonable… |
| 23-5713 | Delvarez Long v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states | Does a sentencing court violate the Sentencing Reform Act when it relies on rehabilitation as a reason to impose prison time? |
| 23-5189 | Tyree Steele v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts imprisonment judicial-discretion rehabilitation rehabilitative-purpose sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court violates the Sentencing Reform Act's ban on imprisonment as a rehabilitative measure |
| 22-7160 | Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions | Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts |
| 22-6992 | Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification involuntary-plea parole parole-revocation plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-sentence rehabilitation sentencing street-time | Whether it is legal to start a prison sentence, then stop it and then restart it by adding more time, is it legal to revoke street time on parole when… |
| 22-6395 | Bryan Wolfe v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure | Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent… |
| 22-5655 | Robert Frank Miller v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compassionate-release criminal-history equal-protection procedural-fairness rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-objectives standing waiver | Whether the district and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's motion for a sentence reduction |
| 22-5354 | Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-08-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-rule rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion | Whether the juvenile life-without-parole sentence is unconstitutional, whether the court abused discretion in sentencing, whether the court relied on … |
| 22-81 | Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffith-standard jury-unanimity prejudice rehabilitation sentencing-delay | What test applies to excessive sentencing delay claims under the Due Process Clause, including whether prejudice is required and what prejudice counts… |
| 21-7700 | Ronald Hunter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider changes in sentencing law as a possible 'extraordinary and compelling' reason warranting a sentence reduction un… |
| 21-7463 | James Edward Sandford, III v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-justice-reform judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief prison-population rehabilitation sentencing supervisory-power supreme-court-power | When should a court consider a defendant's post-sentencing rehabilitation |
| 21-7457 | Gregory Wynn v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-03-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality | Whether the sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a childhood offense is grossly disproportionate, in violation of the E… |
| 21-7221 | Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was 'greater than necessary' considering his troubled childhood |
| 21-6647 | Kenneth Howard Kerr, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-skills due-process equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-speech injury-in-fact re-entry rehabilitation survival | Did the Petitioner state enough facts (included in his attachments as well as the text) to present a valid claim? |
| 21-6632 | Charles Dalton Shoemake v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exemplary-prison-record juvenile-sentencing life-with-parole proportionality rehabilitation | Whether Charles Dalton Shoemake's life-with-parole sentence imposed for a crime he committed at the age of seventeen is disproportionate under the Eig… |
| 21-5620 | Raymond L. Crum v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split plain-error prison-term rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states | Whether a district court commits plain error by relying to any extent on a defendant's rehabilitative needs in imposing a prison term |
| 21-5402 | Ronald E. West v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-issue criminal-procedure due-process election-dispute election-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge recidivism rehabilitation sentencing supreme-court | Whether the lower court erred in not considering the defendant's 30-year-old prior offenses, the COVID-19 emergency amendment, the defendant's 20-year… |
| 21-63 | Terrance Miles v. Belinda Sanchez, Acting Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | evidence evidence-availability government-delay government-responsibility pre-trial-imprisonment prejudice rehabilitation sixth-amendment speedy-trial trial-postponement | Whether the government's responsibility for delays in obtaining evidence weighs against the government in a Sixth Amendment speedy-trial analysis |
| 20-8230 | Jorge De Los Santos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing-conditions sex-offender substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Whether a supervised-release condition prohibiting a low-level sex offender from living in most urban and suburban areas is substantively unreasonable… |
| 20-1315 | Louisiana v. Aaron G. Hauser | Louisiana | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-miller-standard montgomery-v-louisiana rehabilitation rehabilitation-evidence sentencing-discretion | Does a sentencing court run afoul of Montgomery and Miller by weighing the heinous facts of a juvenile's violent crime more heavily than any subsequen… |
| 20-7049 | Edwin Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment age-based-sentencing brain-development constitutional-interpretation criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation | Whether the Miller ban on mandatory life without parole sentences for juvenile homicide offenders should be extended to youths under the age of 21 |
| 20-7034 | Kelli Renee Bullard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-rehabilitation district-court-discretion due-process judicial-review rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum | Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence of 60 months imprisonment—the statutory maximum—when it did so with a blind eye to… |
| 20-6238 | Demon O'Neil Parker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion cell-site-location-information constitutional-review criminal-sentencing first-step-act fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rehabilitation search-and-seizure sentence-reduction standing | Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site locat… |
| 19-8672 | Terry Bridges v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-06-11 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules murder-evidence prejudice prejudicial-testimony rehabilitation sentencing trial-court-discretion uncharged-crime | Whether the trial court erred in permitting the State to introduce excessive evidence relating to the murder of Keith Sluggs of which Terry Bridges wa… |
| 19-8610 | Alfredo Masis Sancho v. Ebner Family Trust | California | 2020-06-05 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure disability-claim legal-damages medical-causation medical-negligence parkinson-disease parkinson's-disease parkinsonism rehabilitation sequel symptoms | Whether the panel correctly decided that Parkinsonism does not produce Parkinson's disease |
| 19-8231 | Juvenile Male v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer prosecutorial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing transfer-hearing | Whether the refusal of the United States Attorney to detail the defendant's role in weighing his potential for rehabilitation in the interest of justi… |
| 19-7688 | Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-standard miller-v-alabama rehabilitation rehabilitation-needs sentencing sentencing-discretion transfer | Whether the issues and evidence related to a juvenile offender's decertification (transfer) decision are relevant to the juvenile offender's resentenc… |
| 19-7528 | David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration innocence-claim legal-release parole recidivism rehabilitation sentencing | Whether TS Appellant is entitled to release on his own recognizance after demonstrating all conditions for release |
| 19-7459 | Christopher Peyton v. Ravonne Sims, Warden, et al. | Kentucky | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion due-process familial-visitation family-bonds grievance-procedure incarceration-rights parole rehabilitation visitation | Does incarceration sever a person's right to maintain familiar bonds through some form of visitation? |
| 19-6557 | Steven Nygren v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cognitive-impairment competency-to-stand-trial forensic-evaluation malingering material-evidence obstruction-of-justice rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3c1.1 u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 | Whether a defendant's purported malingering during forensic evaluations to assess competency to stand trial, when the defendant had a medically docume… |
| 19-6006 | Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-09-19 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing | Does the Eighth Amendment require a factual finding to determine to which class a given juvenile belongs? |
| 19-5251 | Thomas Cascio v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | below-guidelines below-guidelines-sentence criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process prison-time rehabilitation rehabilitative-needs sentencing sentencing-guidelines tapia-error tapia-v-united-states | Should certiorari be granted to find that a Tapia error occurs anytime a district court considers rehabilitative needs in imposing prison time, even f… |
| 18-9524 | Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Rick Whitten, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | IFP | aedpa civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report rehabilitation | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the AEDPA was violated |
| 18-8701 | Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. Florida | Florida | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa constitutional-claim eighth-amendment graham-v-florida habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-offender parole parole-process rehabilitation | Whether a state court may resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of the Supreme Court as a ruling on the merits w… |
| 18-8395 | Janet Sonja Schonewolf v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-sentencing prison-sentence prison-term rehabilitation sentencing-discretion sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-v-united-states | Whether § 3582(a) prohibits sentencing courts from taking rehabilitation into consideration at all in selecting a prison sentence, or whether it merel… |
| 18-8298 | Jermaine Brazill v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-offender cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process-rights eighth-amendment independent-inquiry juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-health rehabilitation rehabilitative-potential young-age | Whether the trial judge violated the Petitioner's due process rights by failing to conduct an independent inquiry into the Petitioner's fitness, and w… |
| 18-5873 | Milorad Teodor Olic v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Dismissed | IFP | behavioral-credits civil-rights due-process parole prison-conditions rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing | Whether prisoners can earn behavioral credits and why courts deny prisoners the ability to challenge loss of such credits |
| 18-203 | Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts | Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentenc… |