No. 18-5084

Daniel Burns v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2018-07-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-determined death sentence and distinguishing him from the condemned whose sentences became final after June 24, 2002?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns’ death sentence and distinguishing him from the condemned whose sentences became final after June 24, 2002? 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.
2018-06-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 1, 2018)
2018-03-20
Application (17A984) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until June 22, 2018.
2018-03-14
Application (17A984) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 23, 2018 to June 22, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Daniel Burns
Margaret Scobey RussellCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner
Margaret Scobey RussellCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner
Florida
Lisa MartinOffice of the Florida Attorney General, Respondent
Lisa MartinOffice of the Florida Attorney General, Respondent