No. 18-9823

Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-06-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITIONER'S JAIL CELL, FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF EXTRACTING INFORMATION THAT WOULD INCULPATE PETITIONER'S INVOLVEMENT IN UNSOLVED CRIMES THAT WERE UNDER INVESTIGATION?

WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING MORRIS' PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, ON PROCEDURAL GROUNDS, WHERE THE ISSUES RAISED, WOULD WORK A MANIFEST INJUSTICE, BASED ON VIOLATION(S) OF THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS, WHERE POLICE TACTICS, WHICH INCLUDED TRICKERY AND DECEPTION, WERE EMPLOYED TO COERCE PETITIONER INTO IMPLICATING HIMSELF IN CRIMES COMMITTED BY ANOTHER?

WHETHER PETITIONER'S PLEA WAS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY OBTAINED, WHERE IT WAS INDUCED THROUGH PROMISE, TRICKERY, AND THREATS, IN THE ABSENCE OF THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, MAKING THE PLEA INVOLUNTARY AND VOID AB-INITIO?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-03-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 29, 2019)

Attorneys

Freddie L. Morris
Freddie Morris — Petitioner