No. 23-6046

Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2023-11-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: age-of-culpability age-of-offender criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment roper-v-simmons scientific-evidence
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2024-01-19
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the death penalty for individuals whose crimes occurred at age 18 years and 25 days?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does this Court’s holding in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), that the death penalty is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment for individuals under age 18, apply equally to those whose crimes occurred when they were 18 years and 25 days old? 2. Does the Florida Supreme Court’s rigid interpretation of Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851(d), which imposes a one-year time limitation to present newly discovered evidence, violate the Due Process Clause by prohibiting capital defendants from presenting newly established scientific evidence? i

Docket Entries

2024-01-22
Petition DENIED.
2024-01-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/19/2024.
2023-12-28
Reply of petitioner Antonio Lebron Melton filed.
2023-12-15
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2023-11-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 18, 2023)
2023-09-26
Application (23A261) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until November 9, 2023.
2023-09-19
Application (23A261) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 10, 2023 to November 9, 2023, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Antonio Lebron Melton
Alice Beth CopekCapital Collateral Regional Counsel - North, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent