Pressley Bernard Alston v. Florida, et al.
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Does a state capital defendant's state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking relief for all federal constitutional violations subsequently recognized by this Court?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does a state capital defendant’s state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking relief for all federal constitutional violations subsequently recognized by this Court? 2. Does the partial retroactivity formula designed by the Florida Supreme Court to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury determination pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? 3. Does the partial retroactivity formula employed for Hurst violations in Florida violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution in light of Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016)? i