No. 18-5415
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity unconventional-rules
Latest Conference:
2018-10-05
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits upon a state court's power to declare unconventional rules of retroactivity, and whether those limits were transgressed here.
2. Whether Mr. Gaskin's death sentence was unconstitutional as applied.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits upon a state court's power to declare unconventional rules of retroactivity, and whether those limits were transgressed here
Docket Entries
2018-10-09
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/5/2018.
2018-08-30
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2018-07-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 30, 2018)
2018-04-30
Application (17A1187) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until July 28, 2018.
2018-04-24
Application (17A1187) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 29, 2018 to July 28, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Louis B. Gaskin
State of Florida
Carolyn M. Snurkowski — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent