No. 19-5386

David Charles Sussman v. Florida Department of Corrections

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2019-07-31
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: access-to-courts due-process habeas-corpus legal-representation prison-discipline right-to-counsel suspension-clause
Key Terms:
ERISA HabeasCorpus Securities
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a trial court violates the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution by requiring a prison inmate to secure or pay for an attorney to file a petition seeking restoration of lost good-time credits, and then dismissing the petition solely for the inmate's failure or inability to do so

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED _ Whece o prison inmote files a petition ina. trial court seeking the testocotion of gain time ecedits thet were. lost ina presen disciplinary proceeding and where the cestocation & those gain time credits weuld shocten length ot thet inmotes Time in prison, did said trial court Violate orf. I, sec. 7, cl 2 (te. Suspension Clause) of the U.S. Canstitution when it ordeced said inmate te secure te assishace of ( or otherwise hive and pay money for) an attorney, and then dismissed fis petition solely foc his Failure (or inability) to do so?

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-05-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 30, 2019)

Attorneys

David Charles Sussman
David Sussman — Petitioner