No. 18-5012

Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2018-06-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity
Key Terms:
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
Suzanne Myers KefferCapital Collateral Regional Counsel - South, Petitioner
Suzanne Myers KefferCapital Collateral Regional Counsel - South, Petitioner
State of Florida
Doris MeachamOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Doris MeachamOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent