No. 23-7391

Markeith D. Loyd v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2024-05-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individual-responsibility jury-instructions sentencing-phase
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2024-09-30 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Where the court in a capital case allows the State to argue that the jury should, or must, try its best to reach a unanimous penalty phase verdict, is the jurors' sense of individual responsibility for the death-penalty decision impermissibly undermined in contravention of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Where the court in a capital case allows the State to argue that the jury should, or must, try its best to reach a unanimous penalty phase verdict, is the jurors’ sense of individual responsibility for the death-penalty decision impermissibly undermined in contravention of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? i

Docket Entries

2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-08-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-08-20
Record received from the Supreme Court of Florida (1 CD - Record on Appeal; 11 CDs - Exhibit; 1 CD - Sealed Record on Appeal).
2024-08-06
Record Requested.
2024-07-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-06-19
Brief of Florida in opposition submitted.
2024-06-19
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2024-05-28
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including June 24, 2024.
2024-05-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 5, 2024 to June 24, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
2024-04-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 5, 2024)

Attorneys

Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Markeith Loyd
Nancy RyanOffice of the Public Defender, Petitioner