| 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 |
Given that it is illegal to sentence an individual to death as the result of a bare majority jury vote or judicial override of a life sentence anywher… |
| 19-8742 |
Harold Wayne Nichols v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override prior-felony-aggravator settlement-agreement vagueness-doctrine |
Does the judicial override of a life sentence settlement agreement result in an arbitrary and capricious death sentence in violation of the Eighth and… |
| 18-1298 |
Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the imposition of a death sentence through judicial override under a now-repealed statute violate the constitutional guarantees implemented by th… |
| 18-5103 |
Jeffery Day Rieber v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection ineffective-assistance judicial-override lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance? |