| 22-5513 |
Jerome Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hearsay-rules hurst-v-florida judicial-bias jury-sentencing jury-waiver mitigating-evidence plea-bargaining state-statute |
Could a South Carolina trial judge who had told Petitioner he would sentence him to death if he pled guilty still rule, consistent with Hurst v. Flori… |
| 20-7205 |
Leonardo Franqui v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-sentencing statutory-construction |
1. Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to be conducted in order to assess a capital defendant's intellectua… |
| 20-5748 |
Dacarius Holliday v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-error criminal-intent criminal-negligence due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-sentencing specific-intent standard-of-proof trial-court |
1. Can convictions for crimes requiring specific intent create constitutional error where the trial court has ruled that the evidence supports crimina… |
| 19-8421 |
Gilbert Tello v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sentencing mental-health mental-health-records public-trial sentencing speedy-trial |
whether the trial court violated petitioners right to a speedy and public trial, Where petitioner was held in Webb County Jail for almmost seven and a… |
| 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cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |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… |
| 18-8670 |
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… |
| 18-7353 |
Nathaniel Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 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… |
| 18-679 |
Erick Virgil Hall v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-standards death-penalty felony-murder heinous-atrocious-cruel jury-sentencing narrowing-requirement propensity-to-commit-murder sentencing-guidance utter-disregard |
To prevent arbitrary imposition of the death penalty, this Court has required use of "'clear and objective standards' that provide 'specific and detai… |
| 18-6709 |
Lawrence Alfred Landrum v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
In Hurst u. Florida, _ U.S. _, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), this Court: (a) overruled
(1989), (b) invalidated Florida's capital punishment statute, and (c) … |
| 18-5892 |
Andre Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-5837 |
David Lee Roberts v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
David Roberts was sentenced to death based solely on findings by a judge after his sentencing jury voted that he should live. In Hurst v. Florida, 136… |
| 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… |
| 18-5040 |
Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determin… |
| 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… |