No. 18-9363

Michael Lee Robinson v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2019-05-21
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
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
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 ShirleyCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent