No. 18-5091

Kevin Don Foster v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2018-07-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst relief violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 8. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst v. State, 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016) to death sentenced prisoners whose sentences became final after Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002) but excluding relief for those who death sentences became final during the time period between Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) and Ring, violate the violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? I

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-08
Reply of petitioner Kevin Foster filed. (Distributed)
2018-07-25
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 1, 2018)
2018-04-23
Application (17A1135) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until June 28, 2018.
2018-04-16
Application (17A1135) 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

Kevin Foster
Scott Michael GavinCaptial Collateral Regional Counsel-South, Petitioner
Scott Michael GavinCaptial Collateral Regional Counsel-South, Petitioner
State of Florida
Stephen D. Ake — Respondent
Stephen D. Ake — Respondent