No. 18-9363
Michael Lee Robinson v. Florida
IFP
Tags: capital-sentencing constitutional-waiver due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-constitutional-rights hurst-rule penalty-jury retroactivity waiver
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Can a defendant waive a federal constitutional right that was unknown and unrecognized at the time?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Can a defendant in a state capital sentencing proceeding voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently waive a federal constitutional right that was both unknown to the defendant and unrecognized by the state courts at the time of the purported waiver? 2. Does a Florida capital defendant’s waiver of an advisory penalty jury prior to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), impose a prospective waiver of the defendant’s constitutional right to penalty-jury fact-finding under Hurst? ii
Docket Entries
2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-07-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-28
Reply of petitioner Michael Lee Robinson filed.
2019-06-18
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2019-05-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 20, 2019)
2019-02-26
Application (18A851) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until May 19, 2019.
2019-02-19
Application (18A851) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from March 20, 2019 to May 19, 2019, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Michael Lee Robinson
Chelsea Rae Shirley — Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. Snurkowski — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent