No. 24-7084

Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2025-04-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: aedpa-deadline attorney-negligence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Securities
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied the certificate of appealability standard by denying relief based on disagreements with other reasonable jurists

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Did the Eleventh Circuit invert the certificate of appealability standard by basing its denial on disagreements with other reasonable jurists? 2. Could reasonable jurists debate whether Petitioner ’s expert proffer created an issue of fact for a hearing on the connection between his combat -related impairments and the denial of equitable tolling based on his lack of diligence ? 3. Should this Court reconsider “the continued application to death row inmates of the agency theory of the lawyer -client relationship,” Hutchinson v. Florida , 677 F.3d 1097, 1103 (11th Cir. 2012) (Barkett, J., concurring), in the context of missed AEDPA deadlines caused by attorney negligence? ii LIST OF DIRECTLY

Docket Entries

2025-05-01
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-01
Application (24A1043) referred to the Court.
2025-05-01
Application (24A1043) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2025-04-29
Brief of Ricky Dixon in opposition submitted.
2025-04-29
Reply of Jeffrey Hutchinson submitted.
2025-04-29
Brief of respondent Ricky Dixon in opposition filed.
2025-04-29
Response to application from respondent Ricky Dixon filed.
2025-04-29
Reply of petitioner Jeffrey Hutchinson filed.
2025-04-29
Reply of applicant Jeffrey Hutchinson filed.
2025-04-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
2025-04-28
Application (24A1043) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Jeffrey Hutchinson
Sean Talmage GunnFederal Public Defender, N.D. Fla., Petitioner
Ricky Dixon
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent