No. 22-6231

William Dustin Poole v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2022-12-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing
Latest Conference: 2023-01-06
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution

Docket Entries

2023-01-09
Petition DENIED.
2022-12-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/6/2023.
2022-12-16
Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
2022-12-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 5, 2023)
2022-11-22
Application (22A294) denied by Justice Thomas.
2022-11-16
Application (22A294) to extend further the time from December 1, 2022 to December 21, 2022, submitted to Justice Thomas.
2022-10-07
Application (22A294) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until December 1, 2022.
2022-10-04
Application (22A294) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 1, 2022 to December 1, 2022, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
William Dustin Poole
Michael Robert UffermanMichael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., Petitioner