No. 24-7087

Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al.

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-04-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-fairness
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether due process requires more than the arbitrary truncation of pending substantive review by an unnoticed death warrant signed midway through active constitutional litigation, and whether a state's death penalty scheme violating fundamental fairness by providing advance notice only to prosecution and victims' families constitutes a constitutional violation

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. As the dissent below highlights, d oes “due process require [] more” than what has occurred in this death warrant case, including the unnoticed truncation of pending substantive review to accommodate an expedited schedule created by the arbitrary signing of a death warrant midway through active constitutional litigation ? 2. Where a s tate’s death penalty scheme vests in the Governor sole and absolute discretion for the timing, selection, and signing of a death warrant, does it violate fundamental fairness for the prosecution and victims’ family to receive at least 10 days’ advance notice of a 31day death warrant, where the defense is not notified until hours after the warrant is issued ? 3. Can a state opt out of any and all consideration of whether a particular death sentence violates the Eighth Amendment due to the aggregate facets of th at individual’s character and record, including catastrophic mental impairments resulting from his heroic military service ? ii LIST OF DIRECTLY

Docket Entries

2025-05-01
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-01
Application (24A1044) referred to the Court.
2025-05-01
Application (24A1044) 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.
2025-04-30
Brief of Florida, et al. in opposition submitted.
2025-04-30
Reply of Jeffrey Hutchinson submitted.
2025-04-30
Brief of respondent Florida, et al. in opposition filed.
2025-04-30
Response to application from respondent Florida, et al. filed.
2025-04-30
Reply of petitioner Jeffrey Hutchinson filed.
2025-04-30
Reply of applicant Jeffrey Hutchinson filed.
2025-04-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
2025-04-29
Application (24A1044) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Florida, et al.
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Jeffrey Hutchinson
Chelsea Rae ShirleyCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner
Chelsea Rae ShirleyCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner