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Moore v. Gwathney

2:23-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: March 9, 2023

Case Ongoing

On March 9, 2023, two individuals serving life with parole sentences for crimes committed as youth in Alabama brought this lawsuit against officials of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole [the "Board"] alleging that the state's parole processes and procedures violated the Eighth Amendment.  Plaintiffs had originally been sentenced to life without parole, but, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory life without parole sentences imposed for crimes …
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Diatchenko v. District Attorney for Suffolk Dist.

SJC-11453 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: March 19, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On March 19, 2013, petitioner filed this action in Massachusetts county court, challenging the constitutionality of the sentencing scheme under which he received a mandatory life without parole sentence for a crime committed at age seventeen.  On December 24, 2013, the state's Supreme Judicial Court,  decided the case as a full court in the first instance, upon report of a single justice, The Court concluded that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama applied retroactively to ca…
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Hawkins v. New York State Dept. of Corrections & Community Supervision

No. 0011–15 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: 2015

Closed Date: 2016

This is a case about whether a parole board properly denied parole to an individual who was convicted as a juvenile and sentenced in New York to a term of 22-years-to-life. At the time of the hearing at Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility on March 26, 2014, the petitioner and prospective parolee was 54 years old and had served 36 years of his sentence at the time of his last parole interview (14 years beyond his minimum sentence). Since the year 2000, he had been denied parole release nine times…
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People v. Stovall

No. 92-0334-01 | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: 2022

This action arose from a successive motion for relief for judgment filed by the defendant in this criminal case on June 29, 2017 in Michigan state trial court (Third Circuit Court, case no. 92-0334-01). The defendant pleaded guilty in 1992 to second degree murder; the plea deal included a sentence agreement for life in prison with the possibility of parole, or parolable life.  In the motion at issue here, the defendant argued that his plea was illusory and that his sentence violated the Eighth …
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Bonilla v. Iowa Board of Parole

No. CVCV052692 | Iowa state trial court

Filed Date: July 9, 2018

Closed Date: June 28, 2019

This is a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of Iowa's parole processes and procedures for a person serving a life sentence for a crime committed under the age of 18.  Petitioner in this lawsuit was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.  After the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated life without parole sentences for non-homicide crimes committed under age 18, petitioner was resentenced, in 2011, to life with the possibility of parole.  In 20…
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Heredia v. Landreman

3:19-cv-00338 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 30, 2019

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2022

This is a case challenging Wisconsin's application of life-with-parole sentences for juvenile offenders. On April 30, 2019, the plaintiffs, individuals who were sentenced to life with the possibility of parole while they were juveniles, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and the Wisconsin Parole Commission. Represented by private counsel and the ACLU of Wisconsin, the plain…
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Brown v. Precythe

2:17-cv-04082 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 18, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 23, 2022

This class-action litigation was filed on May 18, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. An amended complaint was filed on June 8, 2017. In the lawsuit, four named plaintiffs challenged the Missouri Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) parole procedures for juveniles sentenced to life without parole before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which held that mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders without the possibility…
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Howard v. Coonrod

6:21-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Florida's parole procedures for people sentenced in the state to life with parole for crimes committed under the age of 18.    On January 8, 2021, the four named plaintiffs filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, seeking to represent a class of the more than 100 people serving life with parole sentences in Florida for crimes committed under the age of 18.  They argued that Florida's parole procedures failed to comply with the U.S. …
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Hill v. Snyder

2:10-cv-14568 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2010

Closed Date: Nov. 17, 2020

This is a lawsuit challenging mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles in Michigan.On November 17, 2010, juvenile prisoners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the State of Michigan, challenging the state law that prohibited the Michigan Parole Board from considering for parole juveniles who were sentenced to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder. The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the American…
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Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative v. Hogan

1:16-cv-01021 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 6, 2016

Case Ongoing

On April 6, 2016, the Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative, a grassroots membership organization dedicated to advocating for individuals serving long-term prison sentences, and three juveniles sentenced to life in prison, filed this class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against Governor Larry Hogan and three other state officials. The plaintiffs challenged Maryland's parole process for people sentenced to life with parole for crimes committed as juveniles. …