No. 18-5012
Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference:
2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether Florida's limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether Florida’s limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment | decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments because i it arbitrarily uses as a cutoff date a 2002 decision that invalidated Arizona’s capital sentencing scheme under the Sixth Amendment, and results in the disparate i treatment of similarly situated individuals. ;
Docket Entries
2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-13
Reply of petitioner Ian Deco Lightbourne filed.
2018-07-30
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2018-06-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 30, 2018)
2018-04-20
Application (17A1133) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until June 25, 2018.
2018-04-16
Application (17A1133) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 26, 2018 to June 25, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Ian Deco Lightbourne
State of Florida
Doris Meacham — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Doris Meacham — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent