| 22-6955 |
Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire |
During jury selection, the court told eleven of the twelve seated jurors that their decision to impose death would be automatically reviewed on appeal… |
| 21-5232 |
Duane Allen Short v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-decency due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Is Ohio's capital sentencing scheme, which permits telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation, unconstitutional under Hurst v.… |
| 21-5094 |
Stanley Jalowiec v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-responsibility jury-selection sentencing-responsibility trial-procedure |
Is telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 20-7592 |
Alan Eugene Miller v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict sixth-amendment |
After petitioner Alan Miller was convicted of murder, the trial judge instructed the jurors that their penalty-phase verdict was merely an advisory re… |
| 20-5492 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal after new law and evidence developed. The Eleventh Circuit had limited the… |
| 19-8614 |
Edward Leon Fields, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing constitutional-review donnelly-v-dechristoforo due-process eighth-amendment jury-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct |
In Donnelly v. DeChristoforo, 416 U.S. 637 (1974), this Court identified two distinct standards of review applicable to claims of prosecutorial miscon… |
| 18-8664 |
Rodney Tyrone Lowe v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-violation harmless-error hurst-v-florida jury-instructions |
I. Does the Florida Supreme Court's exclusive reliance on a unanimous recommendation of death to find harmless error for violations of Hurst v. Florid… |
| 18-6901 |
Enoch D. Hall v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation |
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6882 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6735 |
Perry Alexander Taylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection flawed-scientific-testimony hurst-retroactivity medical-examiner-testimony non-unanimous-jury retroactivity |
Perry Alexander Taylor was denied relief under Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) in the State of Florida because his case was one of many that b… |
| 18-5937 |
Charles Lee Burton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-recommendation mitigating-factors |
1. Under Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), and Caldwell v. Mississippi , 472 U.S. 320 (1985), is Alabama's capital sentencing scheme constituti… |
| 18-5793 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-punishment-system death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida harmless-error hurst-relief hurst-v-florida jury-trial sixth-amendment |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's holding that a Hurst error is per se harmless where a jury issues a generalized unanimous recommendation for death… |
| 18-5518 |
Norman Mearle Grim v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
advisory-jury burden-of-proof caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation sixth-amendment sullivan-v-louisiana |
1. Can a violation of Hurst v. Florida , 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), be ruled harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, based solely on a pre-Hurst "advisory " j… |
| 18-5402 |
Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de… |
| 18-5359 |
Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-responsibility jury-instructions jury-recommendation |
Does a Florida death sentence imposed pursuant to the capital sentencing scheme overruled in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in a case where … |
| 18-5181 |
Michael Gordon Reynolds v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-error jury-instructions ring-v-arizona structural-error |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's plurality decision rejecting Mr. Reynolds' Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985) claim is error. The jur… |
| 18-5160 |
Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless–error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in every pre… |
| 18-5065 |
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule, which deems Hurst errors harmless in every case in which the defendant's pre-Hurst … |