No. 24-6883

Kenneth Karlston Newsome v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2025-03-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process international-human-rights life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2025-05-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a person's right to be presumed innocent is denied by conclusory assertions of guilt before trial, and whether life imprisonment violates due process and international human rights standards

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

PRESENTED WHETHER A PERSON'S RIGHT TO BE “PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY ACCORDING TO LAW ” AS DECLARED BY ARTICLE 14.2 OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLIICAL RIGHTS IS DENIED BY CONCLUSORY ASSERTIONS OF HIS GUILT BEFORE HIS TRIAL THAT HE "DID" UNLAWFUL ACTS. WHETHER THE RIGHT TO NOT "BE SUBJECT FOR THE SAME OFFENSE TO BE TWICE PUT IN JEOPARDY OF LIFE OR LIMB;" AS GUARANTEED BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION'S FIFTH AMENDMENT AND ARTICLE 14.7 OF THE I.C.C.P.R. IS DENIED BY RELYING ON PAST OFFENSES TO CONVICT AND SENTENCE FOR A SIMILAR CRIME. WHETHER "LIFE" IMPRISONMENT REQUIRING THE "INDEFINITE IMPRISONMENT" FORBIDDEN BY FLORIDA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I, SECTION 17 VIOLATES SECTION 9 “DUE PROCESS ” AND U.S. CONSTITUTION AMENDMENTS V AND XIV "DUE PROCESS" AND "EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS," AND I.C.C.P.R. ARTICLES 8 AND 10 PROHIBITION AGAINST "INSTITUTIONS SIMILAR TO SLAVERY" AND THE RIGHT TO "SOCIAL REHABILITATION" PURSUANT TO THE U.N. 1956 PROCLAMATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.. WHETHER A PERSON’ S RIGHT TO BE “PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY ACCORDING. TO LAW'AS DECLARED BY ARTICLE 14.2 OF THE INTERNA TIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS (I.C.C.P.R.) IS DENIED BY CONCLUSORY ASSERTIONS OF HIS GUILT BEFORE HIS TRIAL THAT HE “DID” UNLAW FUL ACTS.

Docket Entries

2025-06-02
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/29/2025.
2024-05-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 28, 2025)

Attorneys

Kenneth K. Newsome
Kenneth K. Newsome — Petitioner
Kenneth K. Newsome — Petitioner