No. 21-5094

Stanley Jalowiec v. Ohio

Lower Court: Ohio
Docketed: 2021-07-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-responsibility jury-selection sentencing-responsibility trial-procedure
Key Terms:
Punishment
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTION PRESENTED THE COURT: You could recommend an individual be put to death? THE JUROR: But you would be the final — THE COURT: This is why I get the big bucks. Tr. 153. This brief exchange between the trial court and a juror on Jalowiec’s capital case exemplifies the constitutional error in Jalowiec’s case — an error first identified in Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320, 328-29 (1985), and later solidified in Hurst v. Florida, 577 U.S. 92 (2016). For the past twenty-five years, Jalowiec has asserted that his death sentence violates the Constitution because the jury selection process systematically undermined the jury’s appreciation of the gravity and responsibility of its decision whether Jalowiec lives or dies. Because Hurst held that all facts necessary to impose a death sentence must be found in accordance with the right to trial by jury, and because Caldwell requires the jury bear the entire responsibility in imposing sentence, the following question is presented: Is telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? i

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-08-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-08-17
Reply of petitioner Stanley Jalowiec filed. (Distributed)
2021-08-05
Brief of respondent State of Ohio in opposition filed.
2021-05-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 12, 2021)

Attorneys

Stanley Jalowiec
Richard A. ClineOhio Public Defender, Petitioner
Richard A. ClineOhio Public Defender, Petitioner
State of Ohio
Lindsey Colleen PoprockiLorain County Prosecutor's Office, Respondent
Lindsey Colleen PoprockiLorain County Prosecutor's Office, Respondent