No. 20-6824
IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference:
2021-03-19
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt are violated when the jury instructions do not require all of the determinations required by a state statute for the imposition of a sentence beyond the statutory maximum for that offense, deemed by this Court as "functional equivalents" of elements of that same offense, to be found proven beyond a reasonable doubt by a unanimous verdict from the jury.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a defendant's right to due process are violated when jury instructions do not require all determinations required by state statute for sentence beyond statutory maximum to be found proven beyond reasonable doubt
Docket Entries
2021-03-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-02-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
2021-02-23
Reply of petitioner Raymond Bright filed. (Distributed)
2021-02-10
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2021-01-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 10, 2021)
Attorneys
Florida
Amitabh Agarwal — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Raymond Bright