No. 18-5078

Bruce Pace v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2018-07-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. Stateand Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments because it arbitrarily uses as the cutoff point for retroactivity an earlier decision invalidating Arizona’s capital sentencing scheme under the Sixth Amendment, and results in the disparate treatment of similarly situated individuals. i

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-07-16
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2018-06-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 2, 2018)
2018-04-23
Application (17A1157) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until June 29, 2018.
2018-04-17
Application (17A1157) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 30, 2018 to June 29, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Bruce D. Pace
Paul Edward KalilLaw Office of the Capital Collateral Regional Coun, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of The Attorney General, Respondent