No. 19-7799

Desmond Baker v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2020-02-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole sentencing-review
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2020-05-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit mandatory sentencing laws which require sentencing every juvenile homicide offender, who has certain nonhomicide felony convictions, to serve a de facto life sentence with no parole or sentencing review?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTION PRESENTED Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit mandatory sentencing laws which require sentencing every juvenile homicide offender, who has certain nonhomicide felony convictions, to serve a de facto life sentence with no parole or sentencing review? i

Docket Entries

2020-06-01
Petition DENIED.
2020-05-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/28/2020.
2020-04-29
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2020-03-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 29, 2020.
2020-03-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 30, 2020 to April 29, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-02-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 30, 2020)

Attorneys

Desmond Baker
Carol J. Young Wilson10th Circuit Public Defender's, Petitioner
Carol J. Young Wilson10th Circuit Public Defender's, Petitioner
Florida
Amitabh AgarwalOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Amitabh AgarwalOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent