No. 24-7457
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment executive-discretion fourteenth-amendment public-records
Latest Conference:
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Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying Gudinas's demand for public records from the Executive Office of the Governor, in violation of Gudinas's rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution
2. Whether Florida providing unbridled, unfettered, discretion solely to the Governor for death warrant selection is unconstitutional, in violation of Gudinas's rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying public records and whether the Governor's unbridled discretion in death warrant selection is unconstitutional
Docket Entries
2025-06-24
Application (24A1251) referred to the Court.
2025-06-24
Application (24A1251) 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 certiorari is denied.
2025-06-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-21
Reply of Thomas Gudinas submitted.
2025-06-21
Reply of petitioner Thomas Gudinas filed.
2025-06-19
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2025-06-19
Response to application from respondent State of Florida filed.
2025-06-19
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2025-06-19
Response to application from respondent Florida filed.
2025-06-18
Application (24A1251) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
2025-06-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
Attorneys
State of Florida
Thomas Gudinas
Ali Andrew Shakoor — Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner