| 19-7680 |
Samuel Howard v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1. Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016).
2. Whether Hurst is retroactive. |
| 18-8670 |
Demetrius Terrence Frazier v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding jury-sentencing jury-trial retroactive-rule retroactivity sixth-amendment |
1. Does Alabama's insistence that a judge, not a jury, can weigh the mitigating and aggravating factors and sentence a person to death directly confli… |
| 18-8453 |
Dusty Ray Spencer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
binding-precedent capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process federal-constitutional-rights jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-verdict sentencing-process structural-error unanimous-verdict |
1. Whether structural error occurs when, after having been affirmatively misled
regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sen… |
| 18-8027 |
Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari |
1. Does Moore v. Texas, 581 U.S. ___, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
2. Should this Court grant certiorari,… |
| 18-7670 |
Thomas Alexander Porter v. David Zook, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process |
1. Whether a state rule that excludes as irrelevant evidence that a capital defendant is unlikely to pose a risk of future violence in prison is contr… |
| 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… |
| 18-6889 |
Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity |
1. Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a p… |
| 18-5948 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus… |
| 18-5841 |
Juan David Rodriguez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
1981-homicide capital-murder death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactivity substantive-criminal-law |
1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h… |
| 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… |
| 18-5359 |
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… |
| 18-5065 |
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 … |
| 18-5081 |
Alvin Leroy Morton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
binding-precedent capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing federal-constitutional-rights judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-role sentencing-procedure structural-error unanimous-verdict |
1. Whether structural error occurs when, after having been affirmatively misled regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sen… |
| 18-5084 |
Daniel Burns v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete… |
| 18-5042 |
Jack Sliney v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision, which limits the class
of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determ… |