No. 19-6453

James E. Lang v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2019-10-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
Immigration
Latest Conference: 2020-01-10
Question Presented (AI Summary)

When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of its statutory law committed by its lower appellate court, that has affirmed a conviction where the state has failed to prove an essential element of the convicted crime, can the state's 'pipeline' law prevent the application of the correct interpretation to a final case in circumvention of Fiore v. White, 531 U.S. 225 (2001)?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED _ When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of it’s statutory law committed by its lower appellate court, thot has affirmed a Conviction where the state has failed to prove an essential element of the convicted crime, can the state's “pipeline” law prevent the application of the correct interpretation to a final Case in ci¢cumvention of Fiore vy. White, 531 VS. das (2001)? b

Docket Entries

2020-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-12-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-10-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 29, 2019)

Attorneys

James Lang
James E. Lang — Petitioner