No. 20-6533

Grover B. Reed v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2020-12-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-construction
Latest Conference: 2021-03-19
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment this substantive law must be regarded as in effect at the time of Mr. Reed's alleged offense?

2. Whether the Due Process Clause permits State v. Poole to retroactively change the construction of the Florida's capital sentencing statute in Hurst v. State to Mr. Reed's detriment?

3. Whether the erratic manner in which the Hurst v. State has been applied provides a principled way to distinction between those who receive a death sentence and those who do not in accord with the Eighth Amendment?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment this substantive law must be regarded as in effect at the time of Mr. Reed's alleged offense?

Docket Entries

2021-03-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-03-15
Reply of petitioner Grover Reed filed.
2021-03-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
2021-02-18
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2020-12-31
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 18, 2021.
2020-12-30
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 4, 2021 to February 18, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-12-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 4, 2021)

Attorneys

Grover Reed
Martin J. McClainLaw Office of Martin J. McClain, Petitioner
State of Florida
Amitabh AgarwalOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent