| 22-6955 |
Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire |
Was the Fifth Circuit's ruling that a court's comments during voir dire cannot give rise to a Caldwell violation erroneous and in tension with rulings… |
| 21-5232 |
Duane Allen Short v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-decency due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Is Ohio's capital sentencing scheme, which permits telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation, unconstitutional under Hurst v.… |
| 21-5094 |
Stanley Jalowiec v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-responsibility jury-selection sentencing-responsibility trial-procedure |
Is telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 20-7592 |
Alan Eugene Miller v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a jury's non-unanimous advisory verdict to serve as the predicate for a death sentence, when the jurors were told … |
| 20-5492 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal |
| 19-8614 |
Edward Leon Fields, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing constitutional-review donnelly-v-dechristoforo due-process eighth-amendment jury-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether Donnelly and Caldwell remain good law and, if so, whether the Tenth Circuit erred in applying a fundamental-fairness analysis to reject Petiti… |
| 18-8664 |
Rodney Tyrone Lowe v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-violation harmless-error hurst-v-florida jury-instructions |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's exclusive reliance on a unanimous recommendation of death to find harmless error for violations of Hurst v. Florida, … |
| 18-6901 |
Enoch D. Hall v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation |
Whether the Hurst error is harmless given the jury's diminished sense of responsibility as an advisory panel, resulting in a Caldwell v. Mississippi e… |
| 18-6882 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Hurst error is harmless in light of the jury's diminished sense of responsibility as an advisory panel under Caldwell v. Mississippi |
| 18-6735 |
Perry Alexander Taylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection flawed-scientific-testimony hurst-retroactivity medical-examiner-testimony non-unanimous-jury retroactivity |
Whether the State of Florida can deny Hurst relief and execute a prisoner because his case became final before June 24, 2002 |
| 18-5937 |
Charles Lee Burton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-recommendation mitigating-factors |
Whether Alabama's capital sentencing scheme is unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida and Caldwell v. Mississippi |
| 18-5793 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-punishment-system death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida harmless-error hurst-relief hurst-v-florida jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether Florida's application of harmless error review to a unanimous jury recommendation of death violates the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial as… |
| 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 … |
| 18-5402 |
Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of decis… |
| 18-5359 |
Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-responsibility jury-instructions jury-recommendation |
Does a Florida death sentence imposed pursuant to the capital sentencing scheme overruled in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in a case where … |
| 18-5181 |
Michael Gordon Reynolds v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-error jury-instructions ring-v-arizona structural-error |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's plurality decision rejecting Mr. Reynolds' Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985) claim is error. The jury w… |
| 18-5160 |
Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless-error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida in pre-Hurst cases violates the Eigh… |
| 18-5065 |
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule for Hurst errors contravenes the Eighth Amendment |