No. 25-5440

Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al.

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-08-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment litigation-schedule public-conscience sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the 'evolving standards of decency' test should be applied to Sixth Amendment right to counsel protections and whether Florida's post-warrant litigation schedule violates due process rights

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether the “evolving standards of decency” test , which ha s been recognized for Eighth Amendment protection s, should be used to analyze other constitutional protections where decency and public conscience would be implicated in this case, to the right to counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. 2. Whether Petitioner’s due process rights recognized by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution are violated by Florida’s post-warrant litigation schedule by preventing Petitioner from being meaningfully heard and having an opportunity to fully investigate and present newly discovered evidence.

Docket Entries

2025-08-27
Petition DENIED.
2025-08-27
Application (25A216) referred to the Court.
2025-08-27
Application (25A216) 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.
2025-08-26
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2025-08-26
Response to application from respondent State of Florida filed.
2025-08-26
Reply of petitioner Curtis Windom filed.
2025-08-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
2025-08-22
Application (25A216) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Curtis Windom
Ann Marie MirialakisCapital Collateral Regional Counsel - Middle Regi, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent