Florida Supreme Court docket - Angel Diaz

Florida Supreme Court Docket

Case Docket
Case Number: SC03-234 - Closed
ANGEL NIEVES DIAZ vs. JAMES V. CROSBY, JR., ETC.



Date Docketed Description Date Due Filed By Notes
02/11/2003 PETITION-HABEAS CORPUS PT Angel N. Diaz 101061 BY: PT Todd G. Scher 0899641 O&7 W/DISK
02/12/2003 No Fee Required
02/19/2003 ORDER-RESPONSE/REPLY REQUESTED TO PETITION-HABEAS CORPUS
03/26/2003 RESPONSE RS Hon. James V. Crosby, Jr., Etc. CROSBY BY: RS Sandra S. Jaggard 12068 TO PETITION-HABEAS CORPUS (O&7 W/DISK)
04/11/2003 REPLY TO RESPONSE PT Angel N. Diaz 101061 BY: PT Suzanne Myers Keffer 0150177 TO PETITION-HABEAS CORPUS (O&7); 04/14/2003: DISK FILED
04/14/2003 LETTER PT Angel N. Diaz 101061 BY: PT Todd G. Scher 0899641 W/DISK FOR REPLY TO RESPONSE TO PETITION-HABEAS CORPUS
05/06/2003 ORDER-NO REQ SCHED (MISC)
09/11/2003 NOTICE-SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORITY PT Angel N. Diaz 101061 BY: PT Todd G. Scher 0899641 O&7
10/28/2003 DISP-DENIED Petitioner Angel Nieves Diaz has filed a successive petition for writ of habeas corpus, raising a number of challenges to Florida's death penalty sentencing scheme based on the United States Supreme Court's decision in Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002). All of Diaz's claims have been considered by this Court in other cases and decided adversely to him. See Duest v. State, 28 Fla. L. Weekly S501, S506 (Fla. June 26, 2003) (noting rejection of Ring claims in cases involving prior violent felony conviction aggravator); Porter v. Crosby, 840 So. 2d 981, 986 (Fla. 2003) (finding "meritless" claim that aggravating circumstances must be charged in the indictment, submitted to the jury, and individually found by a unanimous jury verdict); Bottoson v. Moore, 833 So. 2d 693, 695 (Fla.) (rejecting claim that Ring created "irreconcilable conflict" with previous decisions in which the United States Supreme Court "reviewed and upheld Florida's capital sentencing statute over the past quarter of a century"), cert. denied, 537 U.S. 1070 (2002). See also Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.s. 466, 490 (2000) ("Other than the fact of a prior confiction, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed staturory maximum must be submitted to the jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt."); Accordingly, the petition for writ of habeas corpus is hereby denied.
11/07/2003 MAIL RETURNED ORDER DATED 10/28/2003 TO TODD SCHER; 11/10/2003: RE-MAILED TO SAME ADDRESS (CHECKED COURT FILE AND ADDRESS IS CORRECT)
11/12/2003 MOTION-REHEARING PT Angel N. Diaz 101061 BY: PT Todd G. Scher 0899641 O&7 (RC)
02/26/2004 DISP-REHEARING DY (RC)
05/18/2004 ARCHIVES M/R-BOX 1877
05/26/2004 USSC CERTIORARI 03-10865 & PLACED ON THE DOCKET 06/16/2004
10/04/2004 USSC DISP-CERTIORARI DY 03-10865