jury-recommendation

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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…
24-6932 Michael Tanzi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-04-04 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-recommendation sixth-amendment 1. Whether Florida may limit a penalty phase jury's role under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments based on Spaziano v. Florida, a case which…
23A312 Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability jury-recommendation strickland-v-washington Whether a jury's eleven-to-one recommendation of a life sentence weighs heavily in favor of a finding of prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466…
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 I. Whether a jury's advisory recommendation of death which does not identify the specific aggravators found, nor whether the aggravators were found un…
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.…
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 I. Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in reinstating a capital sentence issued under Florida's pre-2016 scheme, in contravention of this Court's …
18A1349 Pennsylvania v. Milton Montalvo Pennsylvania 2019-06-21 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-recommendation mental-health-mitigation Whether a prosecutor's and trial court's statements characterizing a jury's capital sentencing verdict as a mere 'recommendation' constitute a violati…
18-8323 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida Florida 2019-03-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-review eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-recommendation newly-discovered-evidence Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require the law of Hurst v. State to be factored into the analysis of the likelihood of a less severe sen…
18-7353 Nathaniel Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2019-01-10 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-6709 Lawrence Alfred Landrum v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-15 Denied IFP capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
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
18-5892 Andre Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-06 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
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 …
18-5303 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