McKinney v. Arizona, USSC No. 18-1109, certiorari granted 6/10/19
1. Whether the Arizona Supreme Court was required to apply current law when weighing mitigating and aggravating evidence to determine whether a death sentence is warranted
2. Whether the correction of error under Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104 (1982), requires resentencing.
Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, USSC No. 18-7739, cert granted 5/30/19
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant’s sentence.
Kansas v. Glover, USSC No. 18-556, certiorari granted 4/1/19
Whether, for purposes of an investigative stop under the Fourth Amendment, it is reasonable for an officer to suspect that the registered owner of a vehicle is the one driving the vehicle absent any information to the contrary.
Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo, USSC No. 18-217, certiorari granted 3/18/19
Montgomery v. Alabama, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016)), held that the new constitutional rule announced in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), applies retroactively to cases on collateral review. Did the the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that Montgomery could be interpreted as modifying and substantively expanding the Miller rule itself, when the issue presented in Montgomery was only the retroactivity of that rule?
Kansas v. Garcia, USSC No. 17-834, certiorari granted 3/18/19
1. Whether the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) expressly preempts the States from using any information entered on or appended to a federal Form I-9, including common information such as name, date of birth, and social security number, in a prosecution of any person (citizen or alien) when that same, commonly used information also appears in non-IRCA documents, such as state tax forms, leases, and credit applications
2. Whether IRCA impliedly preempts Kansas’s prosecution of respondents.
Kahler v. Kansas, USSC No. 18-6135, certiorari granted 3/18/19
Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense? Read more
Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana, USSC No. 18-5924, certiorari granted 3/18/19
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment
guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
Gerald Mitchell v. Wisconsin, USSC No. 18-6210, certiorari granted 1/11/19
Whether a statute authorizing a blood draw from an unconscious motorist provides an exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement.
