DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
1. Whether the Petitioner's right to self-representation was violated when the trial court denied the Petitioner's request to proceed pro se and the Florida Supreme Court affirmed this denial despite the Florida Supreme Court's decision that the trial court's inquiry fell short of Faretta, and even its own rule that protected the right to self-representation, then proceeded to apply the factors that this Court has made clear are irrelevant in Godinez v. Moran.
2. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's most recent decision denying relief from a manifest injustice denied Mr. Sweet's rights under the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the court has the mechanism under Florida law to provide the remedy that Mr. Sweet was always entitled and has treated similarly situated defendants differently?
Right-to-self-representation