No. 20-8048
James Terry Colley, Jr. v. Florida
IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-scheme
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference:
2021-09-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether Florida's death penalty scheme is unconstitutional as applied because the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the 'especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel' aggravating factor does not sufficiently narrow the class of death-eligible first-degree murders
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s expansion of the applicability of our statute’s aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, has now rendered Florida’s death penalty scheme unconstitutional as applied, in that it does not sufficiently narrow the class of death-eligible first-degree murders?
Docket Entries
2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-07-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-06-16
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2021-04-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 16, 2021)
Attorneys
State of Florida
Carolyn M. Snurkowski — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Carolyn M. Snurkowski — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent