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23A1106 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability for a state prisoner's federal habeas corpus petition challenging his mu…
22-5513 Jerome Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-09-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hearsay-rules hurst-v-florida judicial-bias jury-sentencing jury-waiver mitigating-evidence plea-bargaining state-statute Could a South Carolina trial judge who had told Petitioner he would sentence him to death if he pled guilty still rule, consistent with Hurst v. Flori…
21-8042 Etheria Verdell Jackson v. Florida Florida 2022-06-02 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right Whether a jury's advisory recommendation of death which does not identify the specific aggravators found, nor whether the aggravators were found unani…
21-6654 Donald H. Davidson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-12-17 Denied IFP aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing-determination Whether the Due Process Clause requires the additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond a reasonable doubt b…
21-6429 Randall T. Deviney v. Florida Florida 2021-11-24 Denied IFP aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment functional-elements hurst-v-florida ring-v-arizona Whether the Due Process Clause requires additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond a reasonable doubt
21-5280 Robert Craft v. Florida Florida 2021-08-03 Denied IFP aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process hurst-v-florida reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona Whether the Due Process Clause requires the determination that sufficient aggravating factors exist to justify imposing a death sentence to be made be…
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?
20-6218 Terance Valentine v. Florida Florida 2020-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
20-5562 Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-03 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, are violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be …
20-250 Mark Anthony Poole v. Florida Florida 2020-09-01 Denied aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in reinstating a capital sentence issued under Florida's pre-2016 scheme
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
20-5119 Wayne Powell v. Ohio Ohio 2020-07-21 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment expert-funding hurst-v-florida indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Does Ohio's postconviction process allow indigent defendants a substantive opportunity to develop claims that comport with Ohio's collateral review re…
19-8845 Charles Grover Brant v. Florida Florida 2020-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fact-finding fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-waiver Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
19-8341 Richard Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure florida-sentencing hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-precedent ring-v-arizona teague-standard teague-v-lane Whether Hurst v. Florida is retroactive to the petitioner under Teague v. Lane
19-7680 Samuel Howard v. Nevada Nevada 2020-02-14 Denied IFP appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016)
18-9659 In Re Quisi Bryan 2019-06-13 Denied IFP constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's merits denial of Bryan's Hurst claim was erroneous insofar as appellate reweighing cannot cure the errors that affect…
18-9579 James D. Tench v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-07 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty' 'When a reviewing court independen due-process evidence-admission guilty-verdict hurst-v-florida jury jury-verdict mitigating-factors prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment Does the admission of improper and prejudicial evidence violate a capital defendant's right to due process?
18-1449 Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-05-21 Denied arbitrary-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision denying retroactive application of the Hurst decisions to Mr. Harvey violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendm…
18-9117 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-05-02 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment Does a death sentence imposed by a judge who made fact-findings not made unanimously by the jury who recommended a death sentence comport with Hurst a…
18-9111 El-Sayyid Nosair v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-02 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida judicial-review muslim-arab-prisoners prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation sentencing terrorism united-states-v-o'brien wrongful-conviction yick-wo-v-hopkins Whether the denial of equal justice by lower courts is still within the prohibition of the Constitution
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
18-8664 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, …
18-8432 Kelly Foust v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury jury-waiver sixth-amendment Does Ohio's death penalty scheme violate the Sixth Amendment right to a jury as explained in Hurst v. Florida?
18-8399 Randall Scott Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-03-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-8300 Paul Glen Everett v. Florida Florida 2019-03-06 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-defect harmless-error harmless-error-review hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-error structural-defect structural-error trial-mechanism Whether the Sixth Amendment error identified by this Court in Hurst v. Florida is a structural defect that infects the entire constitutionality of the…
18-8016 James Goff v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial mitigation-evidence resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment Is a trial judge's independent weighing of new mitigation evidence and imposition of the death penalty at a resentencing hearing unconstitutional unde…
18-7568 Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-01-25 Denied IFP co-defendant constitutional-review death-penalty equal-protection equal-protection,death-penalty,sentencing,retroact hurst-v-florida mccloud-v-state retroactivity ring-v-arizona sentencing-disparity Whether Mr. Shere's case is no longer one of the most aggravated and least mitigated following Hurst v. Florida and McCloud v. State
18-7428 Harry Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-01-15 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-7118 Richard E. Lynch v. Florida Florida 2018-12-19 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-fact-finding sixth-amendment Whether the State of Florida violated Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments
18-6884 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-11-30 Denied IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a state appellate court from reweighing aggravating and mitigating circumstances and determining that death is t…
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
18-6843 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2018-11-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-6378 Robert Ira Peede v. Florida Florida 2018-10-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
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
18-5837 David Lee Roberts v. Alabama Alabama 2018-08-30 Denied IFP capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona Did Hurst invalidate Alabama's capital sentencing scheme?
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…
18-5648 Anthony Lamarca v. Florida Florida 2018-08-20 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5641 Pressley Bernard Alston v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 8th-amendment,14th-amendment,capital-punishment,hu capital-defendant capital-punishment Does the partial retroactivity formula designed by Does the partial retroactivity formula employed fo due-process,federal-constitutional-rights,post-con federal-constitutional-violations hurst-v-florida montgomery-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana,retroactivity,sentencing,su post-conviction-review retroactivity state-law-waiver supremacy-clause Does a state capital defendant's state-law waiver of state post-conviction review automatically and forever preclude the defendant from seeking relief…
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…
18-5377 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-27 Denied IFP capital-sentencing capital-sentencing,federal-constitutional-rights,w constitutional-waiver federal-constitutional-rights federal-rights hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding penalty-jury prospective-waiver voluntary-waiver Can a defendant waive a federal constitutional right that was unknown and unrecognized at the time of the purported waiver?
18-5376 Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida Florida 2018-07-27 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
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 …
18-113 Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-waiver retroactivity sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment waiver Does waiving a state-law right to have a jury make an advisory sentencing recommendation constitute a knowing and intelligent waiver of the federal co…
18-5352 Paul Anthony Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5354 Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5331 Ralph Simon Jeremias v. Nevada Nevada 2018-07-24 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances confrontation-clause constitutional-standard death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona Whether the Constitution requires that the finding that mitigating circumstances do not outweigh aggravating circumstances to impose death be made bey…
18-5303 Maurice Mason v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-20 Denied IFP capital-sentencing death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-decision jury-recommendation ohio-death-penalty ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does Ohio's death penalty scheme, classifying a jury's decision as a recommendation, accord with the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury as articul…
18-5228 Quawn M. Franklin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-13 Denied Relisted (5)IFP caldwell-error constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation individualized-review jury-recommendation sullivan sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the per se harmless-error rule adopted by the Florida Supreme Court violates precedents and the Eighth Amendment
18-5179 Ronnie Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the retroactive application of Hurst v. Florida was unconstitutionally limited
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…
18-5124 Norberto Pietri v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-standard hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether the Florida Supreme Court's retroactivity analysis for Hurst violations violates due process, the Eighth Amendment, and the Equal Protection C…
18-5122 Thomas Overton v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendmen…
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
18-34 Pablo San Martin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-cutoff-formula ring-v-arizona Whether the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5088 Emanuel Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-…
18-5091 Kevin Don Foster v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach for Hurst relief violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5084 Daniel Burns v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete…
18-5060 Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-5051 Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5042 Jack Sliney v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5040 Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determinati…
18-5037 Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-5021 Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?