No. 18-9097

Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-05-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus CriminalProcedure Securities Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-06-06
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITIONER'S JAIL CELL, FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF EXTRACTING INFORMATION THAT WOULD INCULPATE PETITIONER'S INVOLVEMENT IN UNSOLVED CRIMES THAT WERE UNDER INVESTIGATION? WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING MORRIS' PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS; ON PROCEDURAL GROUNDS, WHERE THE ISSUES RAISED, WOULD WORK A MANIFEST INJUSTICE, BASED ON VIOLATION(S) OF THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS, WHERE POLICE TACTICS, WHICH INCLUDED TRICKERY AND DECEPTION, WERE EMPLOYED TO COERCE PETITIONER INTO IMPLICATING HIMSELF IN CRIMES COMMITTED BY ANOTHER? WHETHER PETITIONER'S PLEA WAS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY , OBTAINED, WHERE IT WAS INDUCED THROUGH PROMISE, TRICKERY, AND THREATS, IN THE ABSENCE OF THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, MAKING THE PLEA INVOLUNTARY AND VOID AB-INITIO? ii

Docket Entries

2019-06-10
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/6/2019.
2019-05-16
Waiver of right of respondent Inch, Sec., FL DOC, et al. to respond filed.
2019-03-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 3, 2019)

Attorneys

Freddie L. Morris
Freddie Morris — Petitioner
Inch, Sec., FL DOC, et al.
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent