No. 21-7365

Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2022-03-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2022-05-12
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the State of Florida's laws that criminalize consensual sex between adults and minors while shielding certain adults from the same or worse acts under its Child Marriage Laws violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED 1) How does the State of Florida condone conviction, incarceration, and registration of adults for engaging in consensual sex with minors when at the same time it shields certain adults from those same or worse acts under its Child Marriage Laws?

Docket Entries

2022-05-16
Petition DENIED.
2022-04-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/12/2022.
2022-04-14
Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
2022-03-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 14, 2022)

Attorneys

Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Louis M. Clements
Louis Matthew Clements — Petitioner
Louis Matthew Clements — Petitioner