ring-v-arizona
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 22-7233 | Justin Heath Thomas v. California | California | 2023-04-06 | Denied | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona statutory-maximum | WHETHER CALIFORNIA'S DEATH PENALTY SCHEME VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT THAT ANY FACT, OTHER THAN A PRIOR CONVICTION, THAT SERVES TO INCREAS… |
| 22-6488 | John F. Mosley v. Florida | Florida | 2023-01-09 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona | IL The first question presented is whether excluding evidence of a history of sexual abuse in Mr. Mosley's family of origin was contrary to this Court… |
| 22-6445 | Juan Villa Ramirez v. California | California | 2023-01-04 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment | Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 21-8187 | Jesse Bell v. Florida | Florida | 2022-06-21 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-standard due-process mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona standard-of-proof | Under Florida's capital sentencing scheme, in addition to finding at least one aggravating factor exists, the factfinder must make additional determin… |
| 21-6654 | Donald H. Davidson, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2021-12-17 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing-determination | Under the Due Process Clause, the determination of the existence of an element of a crime must be made beyond a reasonable doubt. See Apprendi v. New … |
| 21-6429 | Randall T. Deviney v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-24 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment functional-elements hurst-v-florida ring-v-arizona | I. The Due Process Clause requires the existence of an element of a crime to be determined beyond a reasonable doubt. See Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 … |
| 21-5672 | Wayne C. Doty v. Florida | Florida | 2021-09-14 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing due-process jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona | Under the Due Process Clause and pursuant to the right to a trial by jury, the determination of the existence of an element of a crime must be made be… |
| 21-5280 | Robert Craft v. Florida | Florida | 2021-08-03 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process hurst-v-florida reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona | Under the Due Process Clause, the determination of the existence of an element of a crime must be made beyond a reasonable doubt. See Apprendi v. New … |
| 21-5012 | Brian David Johnsen v. California | California | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty due-process jury reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing | Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 20-6218 | Terance Valentine v. Florida | Florida | 2020-11-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona | Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b… |
| 20-5734 | Alfred Flores, III v. California | California | 2020-09-17 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-requirements criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing | Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the constitutional requirement that any fact that increases the penalty for a crime must be found b… |
| 20-5562 | Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-09-03 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment | Are the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be decided … |
| 20-5072 | Rodney Renard Newberry v. Florida | Florida | 2020-07-15 | Denied | IFP | apprendi capital-sentencing due-process elements reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona | Under the Due Process Clause, determinations as to both elements and their "functional equivalents" must be made beyond a reasonable doubt. See, e.g.,… |
| 19-8473 | Shawn Rogers v. Florida | Florida | 2020-05-15 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors apprendi capital-sentencing due-process mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona | Under the Due Process Clause, determinations as to both elements and their "functional equivalents" must be made beyond a reasonable doubt. See, e.g.,… |
| 19-8341 | Richard Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-23 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment criminal-procedure florida-sentencing hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-precedent ring-v-arizona teague-standard teague-v-lane | 1. Pursuant to the test of Teague v. Lane, is Hurst v. Florida retroactive to Petitioner, whose Florida capital sentence became final after the issuan… |
| 19-5889 | Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis | Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju… |
| 18-1449 | Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-21 | Denied | arbitrary-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment | Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision denying retroactive application of the Hurst decisions to Mr. Harvey violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendm… | |
| 18-9117 | Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden | Georgia | 2019-05-02 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment | "The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death." Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616, 619 (… |
| 18-8399 | Randall Scott Jones v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-12 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent | 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d… |
| 18-7643 | Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida | Florida | 2019-01-29 | Denied | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause | Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst v. … |
| 18-7568 | Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2019-01-25 | Denied | IFP | co-defendant constitutional-review death-penalty equal-protection equal-protection,death-penalty,sentencing,retroact hurst-v-florida mccloud-v-state retroactivity ring-v-arizona sentencing-disparity | 1. Whether Mr. Shere's case is no longer one of the most aggravated and least mitigated following Hurst v. Florida and he should have been convicted o… |
| 18-6884 | Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-11-30 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment | After invalidating one of four (4) aggravating factors found by the jury, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reweighed the remaining aggravating c… |
| 18-6843 | James Milton Dailey v. Florida | Florida | 2018-11-27 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause | 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retro activity decision, which lim its the class of deathsentenced individuals entitled to a jury de termi… |
| 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… |
| 18-5648 | Anthony Lamarca v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5331 | Ralph Simon Jeremias v. Nevada | Nevada | 2018-07-24 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances confrontation-clause constitutional-standard death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona | 1. Whether the Consti tution requi res – i n a state i n whi ch a jury i s requi red to fi nd that mi tigating ci rcumstances do not outwei gh the agg… |
| 18-5303 | Maurice Mason v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-07-20 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-decision jury-recommendation ohio-death-penalty ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment | A capital sentencing jury in Ohio has the responsibility of finding that one or more statutory aggravating circumstances were proven to exist beyond a… |
| 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… |
| 18-5179 | Ronnie Johnson v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-09 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona | WHETHER THE BLACK LINE DRAWN BY THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT IN ASAY v. STATE, 210 S0.3d 1 (Fla. 2016), LIMITING THE RETROACTIVE EFFECT OF HURST v. FLORI… |
| 18-5122 | Thomas Overton v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-05 | Denied | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court | 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst … |
| 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 … |
| 18-34 | Pablo San Martin v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-05 | Denied | capital-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-cutoff-formula ring-v-arizona | Does the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S.Ct. 616 (2016) violate the Eighth and Fourteen… | |
| 18-5091 | Kevin Don Foster v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-02 | Denied | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona | 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst … |
| 18-5060 | Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida | Florida | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court | In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 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… |
| 18-5021 | Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida | Florida | 2018-06-28 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review | 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d… |