No. 22-6819

Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al.

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2023-02-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Amici (1)IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: atkins-v-florida eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-unanimity medical-community medical-consensus neurobehavioral-disorder prenatal-alcohol-exposure
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. In light of the medical community's recent consensus that
Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure is not only
functionally similar to Intellectual Developmental Disability, but uniquely identical
in both etiology and symptomatology, does it violate the Eighth or Fourteenth
Amendment for a state court to foreclose all meaningful review of a defendant's claim
that he is entitled to exemption from execution under Hail v. Florida's requirement
that state courts deciding whether to apply the protections of Atkins v. Virginia must
be guided by the views of the medical community?

2. Because "a jury that must choose between life imprisonment and capital
punishment can do little more—and must do nothing less—than express the
conscience of the community on the ultimate question of life or death[,]" Witherspoon
v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 519 (1968), does the Eighth Amendment bar the execution
of a defendant who was not sentenced to death by a unanimous jury?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state court's refusal to consider a defendant's claim that he is exempt from execution under Atkins v. Virginia due to Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure violates the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment

Docket Entries

2023-02-22
Application (22A757) referred to the Court.
2023-02-22
Petition DENIED.
2023-02-22
Application (22A757) denied by the Court.
2023-02-21
Reply of petitioner Donald Dillbeck filed.
2023-02-21
2023-02-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 22, 2023)
2023-02-20
Application (22A757) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
2023-02-20
Brief of respondents Florida, et al. in opposition filed.
2023-02-20
Response to application from respondents Florida, et al. filed.

Attorneys

Donald Dillbeck
Linda McDermottFederal Defender for the Northern Dist of Florida, Petitioner
FASD United
John Robert MillsPhillips Black, Inc., Amicus
State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent