No. 18-5037

Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2018-06-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court’s decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst vu. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), to convictions final after the date of a decision other than Hurst, thereby arbitrarily denying condemned prisoners their right to ajury determination of the elements of a capital sentence, violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? 2. Does the partial retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court for Hurst violations violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution under the reasoning of Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016)? 3. In light of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 515 (2016), does the Florida Supreme Court’s continued adherence to its decision in its pre-Hurst precedent —which provides that advisory jurors in death penalty cases were instructed in compliance with Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985)—violate the Eighth Amendment? i

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-06
Reply of petitioner Richard Hamilton filed.
2018-07-24
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)
2018-04-23
Application (17A1149) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until June 23, 2018.
2018-04-17
Application (17A1149) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 9, 2018 to June 23, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Richard Hamilton
Robert FriedmanCapital Collateral Regional Counsel-Northern Region, Petitioner
Robert FriedmanCapital Collateral Regional Counsel-Northern Region, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent