No. 18-5018

Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2018-06-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Florida violated Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by disregarding medical evidence in finding Kenneth Darcell Quince intellectually capable of execution

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED , QUESTION ONE , Did Florida violate Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution when it disregarded the opinion(s) of the medical community in accepting the Flynn effect as a valid correction of intelligence quotient scores formulated from outdated tests, and further disregarded the medical diagnostic framework for intellectual disability by ignoring the evidence of deficits in adaptive functioning manifested prior to the age of 18, thus finding Kenneth Darcell Quince eligible to be executed? ; QUESTION Two Whether Florida’s statutory mandate that Kenneth Darcell Quince prove all three prongs to ‘ determine intellectual disability by clear and convincing evidence creates a real danger of executing the intellectually disabled in violation of Atkins v. Virginia, Cooper v. Oklahoma, Medina y. California, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? : i

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-07-30
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2018-06-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 30, 2018)

Attorneys

Kenneth Quince
Raheela AhmedLaw Office of the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel - Middle Region, Petitioner
State of Florida
Doris MeachamOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent