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Emond S. Gulley v. Kansas
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Kansas, No. 122,271 · judgment March 4, 2022
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel with five or more prior petitions here, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), the Court held that the Eighth Amendment bars the mandatory imposition of life in prison without parole for offenses committed by juveniles. The question presented is whether, and under what circumstances, the same principle applies to the mandatory imposition of a term-of-years sentence so long as to be equivalent to life without parole.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Stuart Banner
UCLA School of Law Supreme Court Clinic
For respondent
Brant M. Laue
Solicitor General of Kansas
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Oct 17 2022Petition DENIED.
- Sep 28 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/14/2022.
- Sep 21 2022Reply of petitioner Emond S. Gulley filed.
- Sep 14 2022Brief of respondent Kansas in opposition filed.
- Jul 20 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 14, 2022.
- Jul 19 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 15, 2022 to September 14, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jul 14 2022Response Requested. (Due August 15, 2022)
- Jun 22 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
- Jun 14 2022Waiver of right of respondent Kansas to respond filed.
- May 16 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 21, 2022)