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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6422 | Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-validity due-process equal-protection florida-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Were Florida Statutes, Chapters 794 and 800, under which Petitioner was arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, enacted in… |
| 25-502 | Christina Paylan v. Florida | Florida | 2025-10-23 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure florida-law nolle-prosequi sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Does the State of Florida violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to speedy trial applicable to the State through the Fourteenth Amendment, by comm… | |
| 25-5194 | Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida | Florida | 2025-07-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty florida-law judicial-override jury-recommendation | Given that it is illegal to sentence an individual to death as the result of a bare majority jury vote or judicial override of a life sentence anywher… |
| 24-1185 | National Rifle Association, Incorporated v. Mark Glass, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Pending | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | age-restriction constitutional-rights firearm-purchase florida-law gun-control second-amendment | Whether Florida's law banning 18-to-20-year-olds from purchasing firearms violates the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6659 | Ronnie Lee Seward v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review career-criminal criminal-procedure drug-trafficking florida-law sentencing | Did the District Court erroneously sentence Petitioner as a career criminal based on prior convictions for Florida trafficking in amphetamine? Did th… |
| 24-6450 | Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida | Florida | 2025-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment florida-law post-conviction-relief sexual-battery | I* Should F\of\Aa's CouvfK coKvHnue 4t) be 4r> _ . ntuAx) «w+e<i &udS* unJw S^o.^^c)^ FU.SMr.j u,U]<Mhm^ mol«+ef it&uAVps a conun*iH«A fc of offense.… |
| 24A700 | Caed Brawner v. Florida | Florida | 2025-01-16 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process florida-law post-conviction summary-affirmance | Whether it is a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual … | |
| 24A695 | Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida | Florida | 2025-01-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process florida-law post-conviction | Whether it is a violation of constitutional ex post facto principles to apply the current version of Florida's registry statute (and its removal provi… | |
| 24A184 | Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-20 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act florida-law mens-rea retroactive-interpretation sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7023 | Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law federal-constitution florida-law state-criminal-law third-party-confession third-party-confessions | 1. Does the manner in which Florida deals with third party confessions violate defendant's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitu… |
| 22-6943 | Travis Thurston v. Florida | Florida | 2023-03-06 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing florida-law legal-representation post-conviction postconviction-relief | WHETHER THE STATE COURT'S DECISION TO DEPRIVE PETITIONER OF POSTCONVICTION EVIDENTIARY HEARING COUNSEL VIOLATED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCES… |
| 21-7456 | Robert Earl Rowles v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing florida-law ineffective-assistance outcome-of-proceeding post-conviction reasonable-probability right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision | Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights to counsel where counsel's r… |
| 21-7365 | Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | 1) How does the State of Florida condone conviction, incarceration, and registration of adults for engaging in consensual sex with minors when at the … |
| 21-5430 | Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida | Florida | 2021-08-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process florida-law judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal pre-trial-motion right-to-trial withdrawal-of-plea | Does a Florida defendant have the right to withdraw plea before trial? |
| 20-8329 | Ines Colleen Robinson v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-appeal criminal-sentencing disqualification due-process florida-court-of-appeal florida-law judicial-bias resentencing writ-of-prohibition | WAS ROBINSON DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE FLORIDA COURT OF APPEAL REFUSED TO GRANT HER A RESENTENCING AFTER THE SAME FLORIDA COURT HAD GRANTED A WRIT O… |
| 20-7942 | Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida | Florida | 2021-05-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process florida-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings | How Can FLORIDA STATUTE 394.910 (The Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act) (i.e. hereinafter The Act) be considered "constit… |
| 20-1016 | Michael Kosterlitz v. The S/V Knotta Klu, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | civil-procedure contract-formation contract-law false-arrest federal-rules-of-civil-procedure florida-law title-transfer uniform-commercial-code | Under Florida law the tort of false arrest occurs when a person procuring an arrest provides false information to the arresting officer and the tort i… | |
| 20-664 | Artem M. Joukov v. Office of the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida | Florida | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law small-business small-business-rights state-agency statutory-interpretation | FLA. STAT. § 57.111 (2020), the Equal Access to Justice Act, entitles small business owners to costs and attorney's fees when they prevail in administ… |
| 20-6277 | Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida | Florida | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | castle-doctrine civil-rights criminal-law domestic-violence due-process florida-law imminent-danger residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground | 1. Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? 2. Is a resident required to leave their residentia… |
| 19-6360 | George C. Pugh v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation | Is it lawfol for the Petittioner For be decmed an Habitual fetorry offe whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the B years of dor of conviction… |
| 19-6183 | Reginald Chatman v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution | 1. The Defend aat Reginald chatman entered into a negotiated agrerment uith the Florida State Attorneys office Ast Nathan Prince. for a ten Year D.oc.… |
| 18-9479 | In Re Percy Allen Stucks | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | castle-doctrine civil-rights due-process florida-law imminent-danger property-rights residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground | Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? Is a resident required to leave their residential prop… | |
| 18-8594 | Jason Allen Tiszai v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial | WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL INVOKED BY PETITIONER PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 3(a) OF THE INTERS… |
| 18-1200 | Fluid Dynamics, LLC v. JEA, fka Jacksonville Electric Authority | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | certification certification-to-state-court civil-procedure discovery erie-doctrine erie-v-tomkins erie-v-tompkins fact-specific florida-law sovereign-immunity summary-judgment tenth-amendment | This case involves the granting of summary judgment as a matter of Florida law by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida … | |
| 18-8384 | Bruce L. Small v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-13 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights denial-of-review due-process extraordinary-writ florida-law precedent standing state-court state-court-denial written-reason | Can the state appeal court deny me my konstitutional igt to y fiber u y e e e ent as to y it dend y Peion r A xt writ? |
| 18-8347 | Jason Allen Tiszai v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict constitutional-rights federal-courts federal-courts-conflict federal-jurisdiction fex-v-michigan florida-law interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act interstate-detainers judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial state-court-determination | WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL INVOKED BY PETITIONER PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 3(a) OF THE INTERS… |
| 18-8294 | Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony | I. Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in violation of Fla. Stat. § 784.045, is a violent felony as defined by the … |
| 18-7865 | Svitlana Drozdovska v. Seminole County, Florida | Florida | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | ada ada-compliance civil-rights county-responsibility due-process federal-funding florida-law florida-state-law legal-remedy local-government-liability sidewalk-maintenance work-order | I humbly request a new trial which will be in accordance with the law. The nature of their order was their final decision finding in favor of Seminole… |
| 18-6860 | Johnny Ray McCloud v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process dwelling-definition dwelling-vs-storage-building equal-protection florida-law florida-statutes habeas-corpus perkins-vs-state young-vs-state | Was Perkins v State, 682 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1996) correctly applied? See Johnny Ray McCloud's 2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. Does the Young … |
| 18-5501 | Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law foreclosure jury-trial property-rights state-law viamendment | Did the petitioner receive the same equality decision from Florida state law 702.1 as he would had from a jury trial under the Viamendment of the cons… |