No. 24A1037

Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: N/A
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: death-penalty diminished-moral-culpability eighth-amendment gulf-war-illness postconviction-relief traumatic-brain-injury
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a defendant whose diminished moral culpability due to service-related traumatic brain injury and Gulf War Illness was not adequately considered at sentencing, and whether state courts may summarily deny postconviction relief without addressing newly discovered evidence of such diminished culpability

Docket Entries

2025-05-01
Application (24A1037) referred to the Court.
2025-05-01
Application (24A1037) 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.
2025-04-29
Reply of Jeffrey Hutchinson in support of application submitted.
2025-04-29
Reply of applicant Jeffrey Hutchinson filed.
2025-04-28
Response of Florida to application submitted.
2025-04-28
Response to application from respondent Florida filed.
2025-04-27
Application (24A1037) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent
Jeffrey Hutchinson
Chelsea Rae ShirleyCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner