judicial-override
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 19-8742 | Harold Wayne Nichols v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-06-18 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override prior-felony-aggravator settlement-agreement vagueness-doctrine | The death sentence in this case is supported by only one aggravating circumstance, Tennessee's prior violent felony conviction aggravator. The elected… |
| 18-1298 | Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-04-15 | Denied | arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment | Pursuant to Ala. C. § 13-A-5-47(e)(1975), Alabama previously allowed trial judges to override a jury's vote for a life sentence and, based on new evid… | |
| 18-5103 | Jeffery Day Rieber v. Alabama | Alabama | 2018-07-03 | Denied | IFP | appellate-counsel capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection ineffective-assistance judicial-override lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | 1. Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to pursue a lesser included alternative defense and faili… |