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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


Certiorari denied · April 21, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly 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 dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), 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

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
24A695

Proceedings

  1. Apr 21 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 26 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2025.
  3. Mar 24 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
  4. Feb 20 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 27, 2025)
  5. Jan 15 2025
    Application (24A695) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until February 20, 2025.
  6. Jan 10 2025
    Application (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.