No. 24-7457

Thomas Lee Gudinas v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-06-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment executive-discretion fourteenth-amendment public-records
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying public records and whether the Governor's unbridled discretion in death warrant selection is unconstitutional

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying Gudinas’s demand for public records from the E xecutive Office of the G overnor, in violation of Gudinas’s rights under the E ighth and Fo urteenth amendments to the United States Constitution 2. Whether Florid a providing unbridled, unfettered, discretion solely to the Governor for death warrant selection is unconstitutional , in violation of Gudinas’s rights under the E ighth and Fo urteenth amendments to the United States Constitution

Docket Entries

2025-06-24
Application (24A1251) referred to the Court.
2025-06-24
Application (24A1251) 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.
2025-06-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-21
Reply of Thomas Gudinas submitted.
2025-06-21
Reply of petitioner Thomas Gudinas filed.
2025-06-19
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2025-06-19
Response to application from respondent State of Florida filed.
2025-06-19
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2025-06-19
Response to application from respondent Florida filed.
2025-06-18
Application (24A1251) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
2025-06-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.

Attorneys

State of Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Thomas Gudinas
Ali Andrew ShakoorCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner
Ali Andrew ShakoorCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner