No. 18-9644

Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2019-06-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts
Key Terms:
Punishment
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

1) Does the Americans with Disabities Act (ADA) require State Trial Courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?

2) When a person being sentenced for a crime is physically an adult, but mertally still a child because of organic brain damage, how should the trial Court sentence them?
a) Disregard the Orgaric braindamage and sertence then as a mature adult because of the physical age of the body.
b) Take the organic braindamage into consideration and sentence them as a child because mertaly they are still a child.
c) Other

3) Does the U.S. Constitutions 8Th Amendment ban against cruel and unusua) punishment require State trial courts to consider the al before imposing sentencing?

4) Can a person lose a U.S. Constitutional right 30 years before that right is even recognized by this Courtand ruled to apply retro-active?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) require State trial courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-25
Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
2019-06-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 12, 2019)

Attorneys

Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Jeffrey Castleberry
Jeffrey Allen Castleberry — Petitioner