Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al.
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Whether a standardless clemency process satisfies the Court's mandate in Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether a standardless clemency process, one that affords no meaningful opportunity to be shown mercy, satisfies this Court's mandate in Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard, 523 U.S. 272 (1998) (O’Connor, J., concurring), or is merely the flip of a same sided coin reflecting “denied”? 2. Whether a clemency scheme preoccupied solely with the guilt of the applicant provides the “fail safe in our criminal justice system” that this Court championed in Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993), and Harbison v. Bell, 556 U.S. 180 (2009) i