No. 19-7418

Jody Gifford v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2020-01-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole proportionality resentencing
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2020-03-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they denied --without a resentencing hearing -- Petitioner's motion to vacate an illegal sentence and request for a resentencing hearing asserting that Petitioner's life sentence with virtually no parole for a murder offense committed at the age of 15 violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED : Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they denied -without a resentencing hearing -Petitioner's motion to vacate an illegal sentence and request for a resentencing hearing asserting that Petitioner's life sentence with virtually no parole for a murder offense committed at the age of 15 violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. ; li

Docket Entries

2020-03-30
Petition DENIED.
2020-03-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/27/2020.
2019-12-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 26, 2020)

Attorneys

Jody Gifford
Jody Gifford — Petitioner
Jody Gifford — Petitioner