No. 25-6357

Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al.

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-12-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: atkins-rule constitutional-protection death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability procedural-bar
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Florida's partial retroactive treatment of Hall v. Florida denies intellectually disabled people the protections of Atkins and whether procedural bars should exist for categorical bars to the death penalty

Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Has Florida’s partial retroactive treatment of Hall v. Florida denied intellectually disabled people the protections of Atkins and should procedural bars exist for categorical bars to the death penalty? 2. Does a state constitutional provision that prohibits any consideration of evolving standards of decency violate this Court’s jurisprudence?

Docket Entries

2025-12-18
Petition DENIED.
2025-12-18
Application (25A693) referred to the Court.
2025-12-18
Application (25A693) 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.
2025-12-17
Brief of State of Florida in opposition submitted.
2025-12-17
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2025-12-17
Response to application from respondent State of Florida filed.
2025-12-17
Reply of Frank Walls submitted.
2025-12-17
Reply of petitioner Frank Walls filed.
2025-12-17
Reply of applicant Frank Walls filed.
2025-12-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
2025-12-15
Application (25A693) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Frank Walls
Julissa Rosalyn FontanCapital Collateral Regional Counsel- Middle Region, Petitioner
Julissa Rosalyn FontanCapital Collateral Regional Counsel- Middle Region, Petitioner
State of Florida
Scott Andrew BrowneOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Scott Andrew BrowneOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent