No. 24-7365

Anthony Floyd Wainwright v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-06-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: brady-violation due-process eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Florida Supreme Court's persistent misapprehension of Brady v. Maryland and its progeny deprives Mr. Wainwright of due process rights, and whether the court's refusal to consider mitigating evidence and imposition of time-bars violates the Eighth Amendment

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s persistent and fundamental misapprehension of this Court’s holding in Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its progeny warrants correction to ensure Florida citizens, including Mr. Wainwright, are not deprived of their due process rights? 2. Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s refusal to consider properly presented mitigating evidence that provides a mitigating cause to cognitive and neurobehavioral impairments violates the Eighth Amendment? 3. Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s imposition of a time -bar to preclude relief on meritorious Eighth Amendment claims based on new scientific evidence raises “troubling” due process concerns, as one Justice of this Court has observed? ii LIST OF DIRECTLY

Docket Entries

2025-06-09
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-09
Application (24A1202) referred to the Court.
2025-06-09
Application (24A1202) 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.
2025-06-07
Reply of Anthony Floyd Wainwright submitted.
2025-06-07
Reply of petitioner Anthony Floyd Wainwright filed.
2025-06-07
Reply of applicant Anthony Floyd Wainwright filed.
2025-06-06
Response to application from respondent Florida filed.
2025-06-06
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2025-06-05
Application (24A1202) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
2025-06-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.

Attorneys

Anthony Floyd Wainwright
Terri Lynn BackhusBackhus & Izakowitz, P.A., Petitioner
Terri Lynn BackhusBackhus & Izakowitz, P.A., Petitioner
Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent