advisory-jury
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-1306 | Fred Anderson, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Amici (3) | advisory-jury capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-supreme-court harmless-error hurst-v-florida judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a judge-imposed death sentence that violates Hurst is a structural error requiring reversal of the sentence |
| 18-5518 | Norman Mearle Grim v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | advisory-jury burden-of-proof caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation sixth-amendment sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether a Hurst violation can be ruled harmless based solely on a pre-Hurst advisory jury's unanimous vote to recommend death, where the jurors heard … |
| 18-5437 | Gary Richard Whitton v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-02 | Denied | IFP | advisory-jury capital-sentencing capricious due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause jury-trial jury-trial-rights retroactivity | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |