No. 18-8572

Christopher Jones v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2019-03-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: community-control-violations community-controller constitutional-interpretation continuance counsel-of-choice due-process judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel speedy-trial statutory-analysis unconstitutional-conditions unrepresented-defendant violation-proceedings
Latest Conference: 2019-05-23
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether there i8 wilthin the minimum requirements of due process, a minimum set of guidelines to be considered by a Court, in olation proceedings, before denying an unrepresented community controllee's request for a continuance to retaln counsel of choice, and, whether he has a minimum due process right to be represented by retained counsel of choice at those violation proceedings?

2. Whether the doctrine of unconsttutional condtions i8 applicable in community control violation proceedings where a state trlal court deprives an unrepresented defendant his Sixth and Faurteenth Amendment rights by denying him a continuance to retain counsel of cholce, unless he agreed to waive his right to speedy trial in an unrelated case?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether there is a minimum set of guidelines to be considered by a Court, in violation proceedings, before denying an unrepresented Community controller's request for a continuance to retain counsel of choice, and whether he has a minimum due process right to be represented by retained counsel of choice at these violation proceedings

Docket Entries

2019-05-28
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/23/2019.
2019-03-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 26, 2019)

Attorneys

Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones — Petitioner