No. 18-6843

James Milton Dailey v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2018-11-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-01-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court’s partial retroactivity decision, which limits the class of deathsentenced individuals entitled to a jury determination of their sentence pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? 2. Does the partial retroactivity formula employed for Hurst errors in Florida violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution in light of Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016)? 3. Does the Florida Supreme Court’s holding that a Hurst error is per se harmless where a jury issues a generalized unanimous recommendation for death — after receiving instructions that the judge would make both the findings of facts necessary for a death sentence and render the final decision on the death penalty — contravene the Eighth Amendment under Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985)? ii

Docket Entries

2019-01-22
Petition DENIED.
2019-01-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/18/2019.
2019-01-03
Reply of petitioner James Milton Dailey filed. (Distributed)
2018-12-20
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2018-11-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 27, 2018)
2018-08-27
Application (18A208) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until November 23, 2018.
2018-08-21
Application (18A208) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 24, 2018 to November 23, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

James Milton Dailey
Julissa R. FontanCapital Collateral Regional Counsel- Middle Region, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent