No. 19-7418

Jody Gifford v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2020-01-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole proportionality resentencing
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2020-03-27
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they denied -without a resentencing hearing -- Petitioner 's motion to vacate an illegal sentence and request for a resentencing hearing asserting that Petitioner 's life sentence with virtually no parole for a murder offense committed at the age of 15 violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they denied --without a resentencing hearing -- Petitioner's motion to vacate an illegal sentence and request for a resentencing hearing asserting that Petitioner's life sentence with virtually no parole for a murder offense committed at the age of 15 violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution

Docket Entries

2020-03-30
Petition DENIED.
2020-03-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/27/2020.
2019-12-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 26, 2020)

Attorneys

Jody Gifford
Jody Gifford — Petitioner