No. 18-5021
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
Latest Conference:
2018-09-24
Question Presented (from Petition)
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)?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
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
Paul Alfred Brown