No. 20-7649

Robert Earl Jackson v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2021-04-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process frequency-of-orgasms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-victim-testimony sexual-battery uncorroborated-statement witness-testimony
Latest Conference: 2021-05-20
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO DEFECT TO TNE TESTIMONY OF TNE STATE'S WITNESS WHEN SHE TEST/f/ED TO TNE FREquENCY ORGASMS OCCUR SEN RARE VICTIMS DURING AN ATTACK

2. WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECT/VE For failing to call gather , ttackson and PRECIOUS H/cKS as WITNESSES AT TR/AL (eyewitnesses and alibi witnesses )

3. WHETHER FLORIDA STATUTE § 7?H 00.3. (/) IS UN CONST! TUT/ONAL AS IT SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT A DEFENDANT CAN BE CO/VV/ ctED SOLELY ON AN UNCORROBORATED statement / TEST/ mon Y IN sexual Battery CASES IN VIOL at/on of the / -y*jj S5'- f iv~ Amendments to the u, s. CON ST/TUT/ONAL

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the testimony of the state's witness when she testified to the frequency of orgasms occur in rape victims during an attack

Docket Entries

2021-05-24
Petition DENIED.
2021-05-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/20/2021.
2021-05-03
Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
2021-03-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 3, 2021)

Attorneys

Florida
Celia A. Terenzio — Respondent
Robert Jackson
Robert Earl Jackson — Petitioner