No. 19-7994

David Armondo Butler v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2020-03-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-05-15
Question Presented (from Petition)

Did court-appointed counsel deprive Petitioner of the Sixth Amendment guarantee obtain the video footage were being made create an adversarial conflict resultingin a construetive derial of counsel, in violation of the Sixth Amendment ?

Under these circumstances, was Petifioner's waiver of counsel voluntary under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?

was Petitioner's due process rights violated by the prosecution's failure to have preserved and produced for the defiense the requested vides footage inviolation of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Was Petitioner's due process of law rights violated by the prosecution's introductionas Fourteenth Amendment?

Was Petitioner deprived of his right to confrontation ofwitnesses by the admission of DV the acts depicted therei wee howhe sustained his injurisin a hospitaintervewivlation of the Sixth Amendment ?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Was court-appointed counsel's decision not to seek video footage of alleged victim's prior acts of violence a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel?

Docket Entries

2020-05-18
Petition DENIED.
2020-04-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2020.
2020-04-16
Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
2020-03-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 15, 2020)

Attorneys

David A. Butler
David Armondo Butler — Petitioner
Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent