No. 24-7368

In Re Anthony Floyd Wainwright

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2025-06-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to a capital defendant who has no other available forum to raise his compelling due process violation pursuant to Brady v. Maryland?

2. Whether, in the wake of this Court's decisions in Panetti v. Quarterman and Banister v. Davis, Brady claims discovered after the conclusion of initial federal habeas proceedings may be treated as second-in-time rather than successive petitions, as numerous panels within the federal circuit courts have advocated?

3. Whether the state court's Brady analysis was contrary to and an unreasonable application of this Court's due process jurisprudence because it relieved the State of its obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence and instead placed the onus on Mr. Wainwright to discover it?

4. Whether the state court's requirement that Mr. Wainwright prove a firm deal existed between the State and its jailhouse informant is contrary to or an unreasonable application of this Court's clearly established law as articulated in United States v. Bagley, which recognized that the possibility of a reward could be equally or more motivating than a specific sentencing agreement?

5. Whether the state court's materiality analysis contravened the cumulative review required by this Court's longstanding precedent because it failed to consider the impact of the suppressed evidence on Mr. Wainwright's penalty phase outcome?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the state court's Brady analysis violated due process by improperly relieving the State of its obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence from jailhouse informants

Docket Entries

2025-06-09
Brief of Governor DeSantis in opposition submitted.
2025-06-09
Reply of Anthony Wainwright submitted.
2025-06-09
Brief of respondent Governor DeSantis in opposition filed.
2025-06-09
Response to application from respondent Governor DeSantis filed.
2025-06-09
Reply of petitioner Anthony Wainwright filed.
2025-06-09
Reply of applicant In re Anthony F. Wainwright filed.
2025-06-09
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-09
Application (24A1204) referred to the Court.
2025-06-09
Application (24A1204) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of habeas corpus is denied.
2025-06-06
Application (24A1204) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
2025-06-06

Attorneys

Anthony Wainwright
Katherine Ann BlairCapital Habeas Unit Federal Public Defender NDFla, Petitioner
Governor DeSantis
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent