No. 18-5021

Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2018-06-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review
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Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court’s partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury determination pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? 2. Does the Florida Supreme Court’s partial retroactivity formula employed for Hurst violations in Florida violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution in light of Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016)? i

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-07-24
Brief of respondent 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)
2018-04-09
Application (17A1077) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until June 28, 2018.
2018-04-04
Application (17A1077) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 29, 2018 to June 28, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Florida
Stephen D. Ake — Respondent
Stephen D. Ake — Respondent
Paul Alfred Brown
Maria Christine PerinettiCapital Collateral Regional Counsel- Middle Region, Petitioner
Maria Christine PerinettiCapital Collateral Regional Counsel- Middle Region, Petitioner