No. 24-6811

Ronald Carl Pennington, Jr. v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-03-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: None
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2025-05-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether instructing the jury that the defendant could be found guilty on a theory that he aided and abetted a State agent in committing a crime effectively negated his entrapment defense thus violating his constitutional rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments? 2. Whether, contrary to the Due Process and Jury Clauses, the trial court erred in imposing an enhanced sentence under a statute authorizing the enhancement based on nonjury fact -findings upon proof by a preponderance of the evid ence? 3. Whether a mandatory life sentence for a non -homicide offense violates the cruel and unusual punishment clauses in light of this Court’s decisions subsequent to Harmelin v. Michigan , 501 U.S. 957 (1991) ? 4. Whether Petitioner was de prived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 -person jury when the defendant is charged with a serio us felony? Questions 2 and 4 are before this Court in the petition for writ of certiorari in Parker v. Florida Case No. 24-6146. The arguments as to those questions in this petition are essentially identical, if not ii literally identical, to the arguments i n the petition in that case.

Docket Entries

2025-05-19
Petition DENIED.
2025-04-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2025.
2025-04-22
Waiver of Florida of right to respond submitted.
2025-04-22
Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
2025-04-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 21, 2025.
2025-04-16
Motion of Florida for an extension of time submitted.
2025-04-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 21, 2025 to May 21, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
2025-04-03
Motion of Ronald Carl Pennington, Jr. for leave to proceed in forma pauperis submitted.
2025-03-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 21, 2025)

Attorneys

Florida
Celia A. Terenzio — Respondent
Ronald Carl Pennington, Jr.
Jeffrey L. AndersonOffice of the Public Defender, Petitioner