substantive-criminal-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-6043 Robin Lee Archer v. Florida Florida 2020-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law
18-6956 Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-12-07 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law When changes in a state's substantive criminal law apply retrospectively to cases involving homicides committed in 1981 and 1982, but not to cases inv…
18-6175 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida Florida 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 homi…
18-5841 Juan David Rodriguez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-08-31 Denied IFP 1981-homicide capital-murder death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactivity substantive-criminal-law Whether the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State apply to a 1981 homicide prosecution