| 25-6409 |
Krystle Hoffman v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absurd-principles-doctrine due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-of-lenity sentencing-statute statutory-construction |
Whether a defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a court refuses to apply the rule of lenity to an ambiguous … |
| 23-7727 |
Everett G. Miller v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-statute |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of the CCP aggravating factor has rendered Florida's death penalty scheme unconstit… |
| 23-7093 |
Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-statute state-courts |
Whether a state court's imposition of a criminal sentence that violates the defendant's due process rights and constitutes cruel and unusual punishmen… |
| 23A850 |
Benjamin F. Whiteman v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual due-process habitual-offender mandatory-minimum sentencing-statute |
Whether a state sentencing statute that mandates consecutive sentences for habitual offenders without judicial discretion violates due process and con… |
| 22-6076 |
Joseph Rauber v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'and' means 'and' for the purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) |
| 19-7039 |
Kevin Lee Beam v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fetal-dna miranda-rights right-to-fair-trial self-incrimination sentencing-statute |
Does the misguided destruction of exculpatory fetal DNA tissue evidence constitute a Brady violation? |
| 18-9626 |
In Re Rexford Tweed |
|
2019-06-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,eighth-amendment,florida-constitution, eighth-amendment habeas-corpus indefinite-sentence life-sentence minimum-mandatory parole parole-eligibility sentencing-statute |
Whether petitioner's Florida capital life prison sentence with a 25-year minimum mandatory followed by eligibility for parole under Florida Statute §7… |
| 18-8197 |
Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law |
Whether Texas Penal Code, Art. 42.082 is unconstitutional as interpreted by the Texas Court in Ex Parte Kuester, 24 SW3d 247 (2000)? |
| 18-7510 |
Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process constitute a process to seek 'other collateral review'? |
| 18-6777 |
Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
Whether Michigan's Miller statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 18-6782 |
Tia Marie-Mitchell Skinner v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Fourtee… |