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Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida
Paid petition · District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District, No. 5D2023-2383 · judgment October 22, 2024
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel with five or more prior petitions here, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a petition citing one or two dissents, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the state courts are split: is it a violation of constitutional ex post facto principles to apply the current – and more onerous – removal provision of a state’s sex offender registration statute to a petitioner seeking removal from the registry.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Michael Robert Ufferman
Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A.
For respondent
Kristen Lynn Davenport
Suite 500
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
24A695
Order
Order list, April 21, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Apr 21 2025Petition DENIED.
- Mar 26 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2025.
- Mar 24 2025Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
- Feb 20 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 27, 2025)
- Jan 15 2025Application (24A695) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until February 20, 2025.
- Jan 10 2025Application (24A695) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 20, 2025 to February 20, 2025, submitted to Justice Thomas.