09/09/2020 Record of the Supreme Court of Mississippi electronically received (includes circuit court record). 09/14/2020 Reply of petitioner Brett Jones filed. (Distributed) 10/05/2020 Motion of the ...

By a vote of 6-3 in Jones v. Mississippi, the justices disagreed ... A “key assumption” in both cases was that “discretionary sentencing allows the sentencer to consider the defendant’s youth,” ...

The decision in Jones v. Mississippi (Case No. 18-1259) marks a departure from a string of pro-juvenile decisions by the high court since 2005, many of which were written by Justice Anthony M.

The case is Jones v. Mississippi, 18-1259. This story has been updated with details from arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court.

This trend came to an abrupt stop on Thursday, with the Court’s decision in Jones v. Mississippi that judges ... pattern in dramatic fashion. In the case, a 6-3 majority, led by Justice Brett ...

The case, Jones v. Mississippi, No. 18-1259, concerns Brett Jones, who had recently turned 15 in 2004 when his grandfather discovered his girlfriend in his room. The two men argued and fought ...

Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a judge or jury to make a finding that a juvenile is “permanently incorrigible” before imposing a sentence of life without parole. The ACLU filed an amicus brief ...