No. 21-5356

Joel Dale Wright v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2021-08-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-10-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that this substantive law govern the law in existence at the time of Mr. Wright's alleged offense?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that this substantive law govern the law in existence at the time of Mr. Wright’s alleged offense? 2. Whether the erratic manner in which Hurst v. State has been applied provides a principled way to distinguish between those who receive a death sentence and those who do not in accord with the Eighth Amendment? i

Docket Entries

2021-10-18
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/15/2021.
2021-09-30
Reply of petitioner Joel Dale Wright filed. (Distributed)
2021-09-13
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2021-08-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 13, 2021)

Attorneys

Joel Dale Wright
Mary Elizabeth WellsLaw Office of M.E. Wells LLC, Petitioner
Mary Elizabeth WellsLaw Office of M.E. Wells LLC, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent