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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6422 Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending IFP constitutional-validity due-process equal-protection florida-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Were Florida Statutes, Chapters 794 and 800 constitutionally valid and enacted in accordance with Florida Constitutional mandates?
25-502 Christina Paylan v. Florida Florida 2025-10-23 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure florida-law nolle-prosequi sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does the State of Florida violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to speedy trial by commencing a prosecution following a nolle prosequi and refili…
25-5194 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2025-07-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty florida-law judicial-override jury-recommendation QP: Is it unconstitutional to execute Petitioner when his death sentences stem from jury votes of 7-5 and 6-6 and a judicial override of a life senten…
24-1185 National Rifle Association, Incorporated v. Mark Glass, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Pending Amici (6)Relisted (2) age-restriction constitutional-rights firearm-purchase florida-law gun-control second-amendment Whether Florida's law banning 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing firearms violates the Second Amendment
24-6659 Ronnie Lee Seward v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review career-criminal criminal-procedure drug-trafficking florida-law sentencing Did the District Court erroneously sentence Petitioner as a career criminal based on prior convictions for Florida trafficking in amphetamine?
24-6450 Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida Florida 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment florida-law post-conviction-relief sexual-battery Whether a Florida court's denial of post-conviction relief for a sexual battery conviction violates the petitioner's constitutional rights under the E…
24A700 Caed Brawner v. Florida Florida 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process florida-law post-conviction summary-affirmance Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when a state appellate court summarily affirms the denial of a post-conviction relie…
24A695 Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida Florida 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process florida-law post-conviction Whether a state appellate court's denial of post-conviction relief violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process
24A184 Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-20 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act florida-law mens-rea retroactive-interpretation sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether a state court's retroactive interpretation of a criminal statute's mens rea element can alter the classification of a prior conviction as a 'v…
23-7023 Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida Florida 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law federal-constitution florida-law state-criminal-law third-party-confession third-party-confessions Does the manner in which Florida deals with third party confessions violate defendant's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitutio…
22-6943 Travis Thurston v. Florida Florida 2023-03-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing florida-law legal-representation post-conviction postconviction-relief Whether the state court's decision to deprive petitioner of post-conviction evidentiary hearing counsel violated his constitutional right to due proce…
21-7456 Robert Earl Rowles v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing florida-law ineffective-assistance outcome-of-proceeding post-conviction reasonable-probability right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights to counsel where counsel's r…
21-7365 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape Whether the State of Florida's laws that criminalize consensual sex between adults and minors while shielding certain adults from the same or worse ac…
21-5430 Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida Florida 2021-08-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process florida-law judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal pre-trial-motion right-to-trial withdrawal-of-plea Does a Florida defendant have the right to withdraw plea before trial?
20-8329 Ines Colleen Robinson v. Florida Florida 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeal criminal-sentencing disqualification due-process florida-court-of-appeal florida-law judicial-bias resentencing writ-of-prohibition ROBINSON WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE FLORIDA COURT OF APPEAL REFUSED TO GRANT HER A RESENTENCING AFTER THE SAME FLORIDA COURT HAD GRANTED A WRIT O…
20-7942 Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida Florida 2021-05-05 Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process florida-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings How can FLORIDA STATUTE 394.910 The Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act be constitutional when legislative acts are require…
20-1016 Michael Kosterlitz v. The S/V Knotta Klu, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied civil-procedure contract-formation contract-law false-arrest federal-rules-of-civil-procedure florida-law title-transfer uniform-commercial-code Under Florida law, false arrest occurs when a person provides false information to the arresting officer, did the District Court properly rule that th…
20-664 Artem M. Joukov v. Office of the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida Florida 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law small-business small-business-rights state-agency statutory-interpretation Does the Equal Protection Clause permit the State of Florida to discriminate against unincorporated small business owners that are unsuccessfully sued…
20-6277 Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida Florida 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP castle-doctrine civil-rights criminal-law domestic-violence due-process florida-law imminent-danger residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida?
19-6360 George C. Pugh v. Florida Florida 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation Is it lawful for the Petitioner to be deemed an Habitual felony offender whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the time period of conviction o…
19-6183 Reginald Chatman v. Florida Florida 2019-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution Whether the State of Florida violated the Defendant Reginald Chatman's 14th Amendment Constitutional right to due process?
18-9479 In Re Percy Allen Stucks 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP castle-doctrine civil-rights due-process florida-law imminent-danger property-rights residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida?
18-8594 Jason Allen Tiszai v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial
18-1200 Fluid Dynamics, LLC v. JEA, fka Jacksonville Electric Authority Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied certification certification-to-state-court civil-procedure discovery erie-doctrine erie-v-tomkins erie-v-tompkins fact-specific florida-law sovereign-immunity summary-judgment tenth-amendment Whether the District Court and the Circuit Court erred in applying a case dating from 1981 from a lower Florida Court to hold that JEA was entitled to…
18-8384 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida 2019-03-13 Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights denial-of-review due-process extraordinary-writ florida-law precedent standing state-court state-court-denial written-reason Whether the state appellate court's denial of petitioner's extraordinary writ without providing a written reason or citing any precedent supporting it…
18-8347 Jason Allen Tiszai v. Florida Florida 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-courts-conflict federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial state-court-determination Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial
18-8294 Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is a violent felony under the ACCA and a crime of violence under the Federal Se…
18-7865 Svitlana Drozdovska v. Seminole County, Florida Florida 2019-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada ada-compliance civil-rights county-responsibility due-process federal-funding florida-law florida-state-law legal-remedy local-government-liability sidewalk-maintenance work-order Whether the district court erred in finding that Seminole County was not responsible for maintaining the sidewalk under the ADA and Florida law
18-6860 Johnny Ray McCloud v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process dwelling-definition dwelling-vs-storage-building equal-protection florida-law florida-statutes habeas-corpus perkins-vs-state young-vs-state Was Perkins v. State, 682 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1996) correctly applied?
18-5501 Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law foreclosure jury-trial property-rights state-law viamendment Whether the petitioner received the same equality decision from Florida state law 702.1 as he would have from a jury trial under the 7th Amendment