No. 18-5434

Troy Victorino v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2018-08-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
FifthAmendment DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2018-10-05
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the automatic-resentencing-to-life provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) violate due-process, double-jeopardy, ex-post-facto

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death is deemed unconstitutional as a form of criminal punishment violate the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? 2. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling allowing defendants who received non-unanimous, unconstitutional, jury death-sentence recommendations to be re-subjected to the risk of receiving the death penalty in a new penalty phase violate the prohibitions against double jeopardy contained in the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution? 3. Does the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling allowing defendants who received non-unanimous, unconstitutional, jury death-sentence recommendations to be re-subjected to the risk of receiving the death penalty in a new penalty phase trial violate the prohibitions against ex post facto laws contained in Article 1, Sections 9 and 10 of the United States Constitution? i

Docket Entries

2018-10-09
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-27
Reply of petitioner Troy Victorino filed. (Distributed)
2018-09-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/5/2018.
2018-09-04
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2018-07-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 4, 2018)

Attorneys

State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Troy Victorino
Christopher James AndersonLaw Office of Christopher James Anderson, Petitioner