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25-6837 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith Florida 2026-02-17 Pending IFP appellate-access due-process florida-supreme-court opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-due-process right-to-notice Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court …
25-6069 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2025-11-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal-dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-procedure legal-defense 1. Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from defending himself i…
25A372 Derrel L. Thomas v. JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., et al. Florida 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction discretionary-review district-court-appeal florida-supreme-court judicial-review summary-dismissal Question not identified.
25-218 Brian Smith v. Florida Florida 2025-08-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure case-law florida-supreme-court jury-trial post-conviction-relief precedent Does case law from the Florida Supreme Court in 1999 take Precedence over Case law from the Florida 1st DCA in 1988? When a circuit court judge does n…
25A47 Sandra A. Zikry, Individually, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of N. D., a Minor, et vir v. Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, et al. Florida 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court due-process florida-supreme-court jurisdiction-dismissal mandatory-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-5085 Donald Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-07-11 Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty florida-supreme-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar trial-court-jurisdiction 1. Questia (9) /ReseuTeD - wien, on Nor THE SUPREME CounT OF RD Can Procedyfa lly Barked By ICTUAL TANCE Clzagse, ON TNR Z D625, 0) Spal PezeTEosser's…
24-7202 Iris L. Anderson v. City of Jasper, Florida, et al. Florida 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-murder-act constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court state-action statutory-interpretation I cannot reliably extract the "Question(s) Presented" section from this document. While the OCR text contains a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header, the ha…
24-6750 Troy Rambaransingh v. Bank of America National Association, Individually and as Successor by Merger to LaSalle Bank, et al. Florida 2025-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review constitutional-jurisdiction due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-transparency separation-of-powers The United States Constitution vests the "judicial power " in Article III courts. Florida 's Constitution has similar language, however, it proceeds t…
24-6445 Neelam Uppal v. Florida Department of Administrative Hearings, et al. Florida 2025-02-03 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violations due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-review Did the Florida Supreme Court err in dismissing the appeal and consequently failed to address the constitutional violations raised.
24-5816 Terrance A. Burlison v. Jerry W. Benefield, dba Green Oaks Manor Mobile Home Park Florida 2024-10-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment procedural-rules WHETHER THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT VIOLATED THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS DUE PROCESS CLAUSE WHEN IT ENTERED AN ORDER OF DISMISSAL BEFORE THE…
23-7727 Everett G. Miller v. Florida Florida 2024-06-14 Denied IFP aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-statute Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of our statute's aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was co…
23-7262 Eric D. Sweet v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal conviction-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-supreme-court fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-timeliness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review statutory-time-limit One B/t'dencs (^4-eoj-^d in Court froee&dhq Wa$n '~f Gb/idr'eJe de C&nvt c.-f^fv3« %& FlonJa tosfndt douff d Afye4* cjeCism resul-fzj m a decjsfo* da…
23A913 Richard Shean, et al. v. ZRS Management, as Manager for Arbors at Orange Park Florida 2024-04-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-interpretation supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-6303 In Re Walter Drummond 2023-12-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP case-consolidation civil-rights collateral-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-process legal-nomenclature miranda-rights procedural-posture retroactivity review-denial state-vs-federal 1.) STATE OF FLORIDA v. WEISS, 935 So.2d 110, 115 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006) and Roberts v. State, 874 So.2d 1225 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004), which admits the state a…
23-6053 Nathan Nixon v. Florida Florida 2023-11-20 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process first-district-court florida-supreme-court free-speech jurisdiction public-records standing Did the First District Court of Appeal of Florida violate questions in the Petition alleging that it conflicts with relevant decisions of this court? …
22-6015 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida Florida 2022-11-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process florida-jurisprudence florida-supreme-court giglio-precedent giglio-v-united-states pleading-requirements pleading-standards procedural-specificity supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court contravened Giglio v. United States and procedural due process by requiring heightened specificity in pleading?
21-1227 MRI Associates of Tampa, Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Florida 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-standard florida-supreme-court stipulation-of-facts summary-judgment unpreserved-issue waived-issue waiver-doctrine Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's constitutionally guaranteed due process rights by reversing the trial court's summary judgment …
21-7123 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2022-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction record-keeping records standing 1. Can the Supreme Court of Florida Rule on whether to accept Jurisdiction on a case which has no records ? 2. Should imprisonment without any record…
20-8048 James Terry Colley, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-05-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-scheme Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of our statute's aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was es…
20-7615 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2021-03-31 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline…
20-6533 Grover B. Reed v. Florida Florida 2020-12-04 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-construction 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process …
20-6094 Sean Alonzo Bush v. Florida Florida 2020-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency florida-supreme-court legal-precedent precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT DENIED THE PETITIONER DUE PROCESS WHEN IT ABANDONED A CENTURY OF PRECEDENT AND APPLIED A NEW AND LESS STRICT STANDAR…
20-496 Lynn Weinberg v. Deborah Bort Florida 2020-10-15 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court fourth-district-court full-faith-and-credit probate probate-law 1. Whether the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida ("4 DC A") violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. C…
19-1446 Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation The possibility for federal appel late courts to abuse the "right for the wrong reason" rule, as the rule was promulgated by this Court in Helvering…
19-5617 Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. Florida 2019-08-16 Denied Amici (2)IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk 1. Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled? 2. Does the Rodriguez procedur…
19-5372 Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. Florida 2019-07-29 Dismissed IFP ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings "REGISTRY." LUST MAINTAINED BY THE CLERK OF THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT UNCONSTTUTONAL AMERICANS WITH DISABLLITIES AET? 2) DiD DESIGNATIRON UNDER FLORI…
19-5099 James Thompson v. Florida Florida 2019-07-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court-of-appeal due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court fraud per-curiam-affirmance supreme-court-jurisdiction unelaborated-affirmance The question presented involves the Florida practice and rule which do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the distr…
18-9270 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida 2019-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-murder capital-murder-elements-as-sentencing-factors due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court foster-v-state fourteenth-amendment precedent sentencing-factors 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State, 258 So. 3d 1248 (Fla. 2018), mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florid…
18-1306 Fred Anderson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-04-16 Denied Amici (3) advisory-jury capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-supreme-court harmless-error hurst-v-florida judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Whether a judge-imposed death sentence that violates Hurst is a structural error requiring reversal of the sentence. 2. Whether a Hurst violation …
18-8286 Marco M. Torres v. Michael S. Williams, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County Florida 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, Article 3, section 1, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists…
18-8090 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State, 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016), which retroactively changed the elements necessary for impo…
18-898 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Barbara Jean Johnston, Personal Representative of Franklin James Johnston Florida 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit engle-litigation florida-supreme-court issue-preclusion jury-findings legal-preclusion preclusion prior-proceeding res-judicata Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims without s…
18-6199 Marco M. Torres v. Frances M. Perrone, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County Florida 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit Whether, Article 3, section 1, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists of…
18-6000 Angel Barreiro v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights de-facto-life-sentence due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court life-sentence parole parole-eligibility parole-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-scheme Whether all 4,626 pre-1994 parole eligible Inmates in the State of Florida whom all are equally situated under the statutory schemes and criteria's of…
18-5434 Troy Victorino v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the automatic-resentencing-tolife provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death…
18-41 Micheline Baptiste v. Shrusan Gray Florida 2018-07-06 Denied access-to-courts bodily-injuries civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court free-speech government-redress judicial-review jurisdiction petition-clause petition-for-redress pro-se-petition standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether Florida Supreme Court holds authority to dismiss petition by Petitioner, the unrepresented party, to review orders of the Seventeenth Judicial…