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John Goodman v. Florida
Paid petition · District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District, No. 4D14-4479 · judgment July 26, 2017
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the state courts are split (including the Florida appellate court of last resort in this case): can law enforcement officers rely on the exigent circumstance exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement to justify the warrantless extraction of blood from a suspected drunk driver when the officers make no attempt to obtain a warrant prior to forcibly taking the blood sample and presented no evidence that a warrant judge was actually unavailable (which, in essence, would create another per se exigency in contravention of the Court’s holding in Missouri v. McNeely, 569 U.S. 141 (2013)).
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Whether a state statute silent concerning mens rea which criminalizes a driver’s failure to render aid to a person injured in a crash was
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Michael Robert Ufferman
Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A.
For respondent
Richard Chambers Valuntas
Office of Attorney General
Proceedings
- Oct 01 2018Petition DENIED.
- Aug 22 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
- Aug 14 2018Waiver of right of respondent State of Florida to respond filed.
- Aug 06 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 10, 2018)
- May 30 2018Application (17A1311) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until August 6, 2018.
- May 23 2018Application (17A1311) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 7, 2018 to August 6, 2018, submitted to Justice Thomas.