No. 18-8683
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity
Latest Conference:
2019-06-06
Question Presented (from Petition)
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.
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
2019-06-10
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/6/2019.
2019-05-16
Certificate of Service filed with respect to reply brief of petitioner.
2019-05-13
Reply of petitioner James Duckett filed.
2019-05-03
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2019-03-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 3, 2019)
Attorneys
James Duckett
Mary Elizabeth Wells — Law Office of M.E. Wells, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. Snurkowski — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent