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Timothy W. Fletcher v. Florida
IFP petition · Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2023-0058 · judgment July 17, 2025
Question presented
Whether the Florida Legislature’s expansion of the applicability of our statute’s “aggravating factors” requirements, Section 921.141(6), Florida Statutes (2023), together with the Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision in Lawrence v. State, 308 So. 3d 544, (Fla. 2020), completely doing away with proportionality review in all death sentences, has now rendered Florida’s entire death penalty scheme unconstitutional as applied, in that it does not sufficiently narrow the class of death-eligible first-degree murders?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
John M. Selden
Office of the Public Defender
For respondent
Scott Andrew Browne
Office of the Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jan 12 2026Petition DENIED.
- Dec 04 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
- Nov 13 2025Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
- Oct 14 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 20, 2025)