No. 24-7399

Lake Robinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2025-06-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-law ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stand-your-ground
Key Terms:
DueProcess Securities
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether defense counsel's failure to request a pretrial immunity hearing constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, particularly in light of Florida's Stand Your Ground law and potential ex post facto constitutional concerns

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Defense Counsel was ineffective for failing to request a pretrial immunity hearing based on erroneous reasoning that Appellant was not entitled to the Florida Stand Your Ground immunity laws in violation of the 6th and 14th Amendments of the US Constitution. The State and U.S. Circuit Courts decided an important question of federal law (ex post facto) that has not been, but should be, settled by this court has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court decisions in Peugh v. U.S. 133 S. Ct. 2072 (2013) and Carmell vs.Texas, 120 S. Ct. 1620 (2000). 2. The question whether a state law is properly characterized as falling under the Federal Constitution's Art I, 10, cl 1 prohibition against ex post facto laws is a federal question that the United States Supreme Court determines for itself. i

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-18
Waiver of right of respondent Sec., FL DOC Dixon to respond filed.
2025-04-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 11, 2025)

Attorneys

Lake Robinson
Lake J. Robinson — Petitioner
Lake Robinson — Petitioner
Lake Robinson — Petitioner
Sec., FL DOC Dixon
Celia A. Terenzio — Respondent
Celia A. Terenzio — Respondent