No. 20-7228

Leroy Pooler v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2021-02-25
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment Securities
Latest Conference: 2021-05-13
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require that this substantive law govern the law in existence in 1992, when Mr. Pooler's offenses were charged?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court’s statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require that this substantive law govern the law in existence in 1992, when Mr. Pooler’s offenses were charged? 2. Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s recession from Hurst v. Statein State v. Poole violates the Eighth Amendment as it relates to the jury’s role of finding statutorily required facts beyond a reasonable doubt in order to authorize a sentence of death? i

Docket Entries

2021-05-17
Petition DENIED.
2021-04-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/13/2021.
2021-04-14
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2021-03-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 14, 2021.
2021-03-22
Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 29, 2021 to April 14, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-02-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 29, 2021)

Attorneys

Leroy Pooler
Todd Gerald ScherLaw Office of Todd G. Scher, P.L., Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent