simmons-v-south-carolina
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-7229 | Manuel Ovante, Jr. v. Arizona | Arizona | 2023-04-06 | GVR | IFP | capital-murder due-process guilty-plea judicial-misrepresentation lynch-v-arizona parole parole-eligibility sentencing simmons-v-south-carolina | Whether Petitioner's guilty pleas were involuntary due to the trial judge's misrepresentation that life with the possibility of parole was a sentencin… |
| 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… |