Reply Brief — John A. Crane, Petitioner v. Florida
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No. 23-5455
IN THE
Supreme Court of the United States
JOHN A. CRANE,
Petitioner,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE
FLORIDA DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL,
FOURTH DISTRICT
REPLY BRIEF FOR PETITIONER
CAREY HAUGHWOUT
Public Defender
PAUL EDWARD PETILLO
Assistant Public
Defender
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC
DEFENDER
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA
421 Third Street
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
SETH P. WAXMAN
Counsel of Record
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING
HALE AND DORR LLP
1875 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 663-6000
seth.waxman@wilmerhale.com
THOMAS G. SPRANKLING
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING
HALE AND DORR LLP
ALEX W. MILLER
2600 El Camino Real
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING Suite 400
HALE AND DORR LLP
Palo Alto, CA 94306
7 World Trade Center
LEAH FUGERE*
250 Greenwich Street
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING
New York, NY 10007
HALE AND DORR LLP
350 S. Grand Avenue
Suite 2400
Los Angeles, CA 90071
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ........................................... ii
ARGUMENT ....................................................................... 2
I.
BOTH OF FLORIDA’S VEHICLE ARGUMENTS
HAVE BEEN REJECTED ............................................... 2
A. Jurisdiction ............................................................. 2
B. Harmless Error ..................................................... 5
II. THE COURT SHOULD OVERRULE WILLIAMS ............ 6
A. Egregiously Wrong............................................... 7
B. Significant Negative Consequences ................. 10
C. Reliance ................................................................ 11
CONCLUSION ................................................................. 12
ii
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
Page(s)
Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013) ................... 6
Ballew v. Georgia, 435 U.S. 223 (1978) ............................. 8
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Mihas, 280
U.S. 102 (1929) .............................................................. 4
Colgrove v. Battin, 413 U.S. 149 (1973) .......................... 10
Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005) ......................... 6
DeBiasi v. Snaith, 732 So. 2d 14 (Fla. Dist. Ct.
App. 1999) ...................................................................... 5
Gotthilf v. Sills, 375 U.S. 79 (1963) ................................... 5
Guzman v. State, 350 So. 3d 72 (Fla. Dist. Ct.
App. 2022) ...................................................................... 3
Guzman v. State, 2023 WL 3830251 (Fla. June 6,
2023) ............................................................................... 3
Ibanez v. Florida Department of Business &
Professional Regulation, 512 U.S. 136
(1994) .............................................................................. 4
Jollie v. State, 405 So. 2d 418 (Fla. 1981) ......................... 3
Khorrami v. Arizona, 143 S.Ct. 22 (2022)...........1, 7, 9-10
Local 174 v. Lucas Flour Co., 369 U.S. 95 (1962) ............. 5
Market Street Railway Co. v. Railroad Commission, 324 U.S. 548 (1945) ...................................... 4
Nash v. Florida Industrial Commission, 389
U.S. 235 (1967) .......................................................... 1, 5
Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1 (1999) .......................... 6
Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020) ...... 1-2, 7-8, 11
iii
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES—Continued
Page(s)
Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003)..................... 10
United States v. Curbelo, 343 F.3d 273 (4th Cir.
2003) ............................................................................... 6
Whitaker
v.
Jacksonville
Expressway
Authority, 131 So. 2d 22 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App.
1961) ............................................................................... 4
Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970) ................. 2, 7, 10
DOCKETED CASES
Ramos v. Louisiana, No. 18-5924 (U.S.) ......................... 11
STATUTORY PROVISIONS
28 U.S.C. § 1257 ............................................................... 2, 5
OTHER AUTHORITIES
American Bar Association, Principles for Juries
and Jury Trials (2005), https://www.
uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/aba_principles
_for_juries_and_jury_trials_2005.pdf ................. 8, 10
Fay, Nicolas, et al., Group Discussion as
Interactive Dialogue or as Serial
Monologue: The Influence of Group Size, 11
Psychol. Sci. 481 (2000) ................................................ 9
Florida Office of the State Courts Administrator, FY 2021-22 Statistical Reference Guide
(2023), https://tinyurl.com/22tn3z32......................... 11
Guerra, Alice, et al., Accuracy of Verdicts, 28
Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 221 (2020) ................................... 9
iv
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES—Continued
Page(s)
Kogan, Gerald & Robert Craig Waters, The Operation and Jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, 18 Nova L. Rev. 1151 (1994) ............... 3
Mukhopadhaya, Koushik, Jury Size and the
Free Rider Problem, 19 J. L. Econ. & Org.
24 (2003) ......................................................................... 9
Parisi, Francesco & Barbara Luppi, Jury Size
and the Hung-Jury Paradox, 42 J. Legal
Stud. 399 (2013) ............................................................. 9
Rose, Mary R., et al., Jury Pool Underrepresentation in the Modern Era: Evidence from
Federal Courts, 15 J. Empirical Legal Stud.
2 (2018) ........................................................................... 9
Saks, Michael J. & Molly Weighner Marti, A
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Jury Size,
21 Law & Hum. Behav. 451 (1997) ............................. 8
Waller, Bridget M, et al., Twelve (Not So) Angry
Men: Managing Conversational Group Size
Increases Perceived Contribution by
Decision Makers, 14 Grp. Processes &
Intergrp. Rels. 835 (2011)............................................ 9
The Sixth Amendment’s “promise of a jury trial” is
“fundamental to the American scheme of justice.” Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390, 1395 (2020). The scope
of that right is controlled by “what the term ‘trial by an
impartial jury’ … meant at the time of the Sixth Amendment’s adoption.” Id. Tellingly, Florida does not dispute
that “a mountain of evidence suggests that, both at the
time of the Amendment’s adoption and for most of our
Nation’s history, the right to a trial by jury for serious
criminal offenses meant a trial before 12 members of the
community.” Khorrami v. Arizona, 143 S.Ct. 22, 23
(2022) (Gorsuch, J., dissenting). To the contrary, Florida
acknowledges the common law did impose a “12-person
jury requirement.” Opp.8-9.
Florida seeks to distract from the fundamental right
at stake by raising meritless vehicle issues and highlighting the one-time cost of correcting the Williams error. As to the former, Florida argues Mr. Crane failed
to exhaust his options for state court review because he
did not ask the Florida Court of Appeal to certify the
question presented to the Florida Supreme Court. But
Mr. Crane properly petitioned the Florida Supreme
Court for review, and this Court already rejected Florida’s certification argument nearly sixty years ago. See
Nash v. Florida Indus. Comm’n, 389 U.S. 235, 237 & n.1
(1967). Florida’s suggestion that this Court should sub
silentio overrule Nash based on a ministerial change to
the state Rules of Appellate Procedure is meritless. Indeed, this Court granted review of several Florida Court
of Appeal decisions even after the tweak to Florida’s
rules. Similarly, Florida’s harmless error argument ignores that (1) every Circuit to consider the issue has held
that failure to provide a 12-member jury is structural
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error and, regardless, (2) harmlessness is most properly
addressed on remand.1
As to Florida’s latter argument—i.e., that overruling Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970), would require a slice of cases to be retried in a half-dozen
States—this is the “usual” consequence of adopting a
“new rule[] of criminal procedure,” Ramos, 140 S.Ct. at
1406. This Court vacated “nearly 800 decisions” following Booker v. United States and “[s]imilar consequences
likely followed” other landmark rulings. Id. Here,
nearly 50 million Americans are currently being denied
their right to a 12-person jury in nearly all circumstances. “[T]he competing interests” of a handful of
States cannot outweigh “the reliance the American people place in their constitutionally protected liberties.”
Id. at 1408 (plurality op.).
ARGUMENT
I.
BOTH OF FLORIDA’S VEHICLE ARGUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REJECTED
A. Jurisdiction
Mr. Crane obtained a decision from the “highest
court of a State in which a decision could be had,” 28
U.S.C. § 1257(a), because he unsuccessfully petitioned
the Florida Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeal’s decision affirming his conviction at a time when
Florida’s high court had jurisdiction, Pet.App.2.
Specifically, the Florida Court of Appeal summarily
affirmed Mr. Crane’s conviction in a per curiam order.
1
This Court called for a response in other cases raising the
same question presented. See Nos. 23-5171, 23-5173, 23-5567, 235570, 23-5575, 23-5579. This case should at least be held pending
resolution of those petitions.
3
Pet.App.1. The decision read in full: “Affirmed. See
Guzman v. State, 350 So. 3d 72, 73 (Fla. 4th DCA 2022),
rev. pending, No. SC22-1597.” Pet.App.1. Guzman presented the 12-member jury question. Guzman v. State,
350 So. 3d 72, 73-74 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2022). When the
Court of Appeal “cites as controlling authority a decision
… pending review in” the Florida Supreme Court, the
latter has discretionary jurisdiction to take up the case.
Jollie v. State, 405 So. 2d 418, 420 (Fla. 1981). That is the
situation here—the Court of Appeal cited Guzman,
which was then properly pending in the Florida Supreme Court. Pet.App.1; see also Guzman v. State, 2023
WL 3830251, at *1 (Fla. June 6, 2023); Kogan & Waters,
The Operation and Jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme
Court, 18 Nova L. Rev. 1151, 1155 n.9 (1994) (“A case is
pending if it has been properly filed and is awaiting review.”). Mr. Crane thus could—and did—invoke the
Florida Supreme Court’s jurisdiction by filing a petition
for review. Jollie, 405 So. 2d at 420; Pet.App.1-2. Under
these circumstances, the Florida Supreme Court dismissing Mr. Crane’s petition after denying review in
Guzman is not an indication the Court lacked jurisdiction when Mr. Crane filed his petition for review.2
Florida’s contention (Opp.5-6) that Mr. Crane should
have instead sought certification in the Court of Appeal
because “the Florida Supreme Court generally lacks jurisdiction ... to review summary decisions” simply ignores the Jollie rule. Here, the Florida Supreme Court
did have jurisdiction when Mr. Crane petitioned for review because Guzman was pending, then declined to
take up the question presented in both cases. There is
2
Guzman is also pending before this Court. See No. 23-5173.
Florida does not dispute that this Court has jurisdiction to consider
Guzman.
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no requirement to avail oneself of more than one path to
review so long as the higher court would have jurisdiction under the path the litigant did take. E.g., Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Mihas, 280 U.S. 102, 104 (1929).
“[I]t would be unreasonable to require an application to
the Appellate Court for a certificate of importance and
appeal when Supreme Court” had already denied a petition for review of the same question. Id. That is precisely what Florida demands here.
Regardless, this Court rejected in Nash the certification argument Florida now presses, and has granted
certiorari to the Florida Court of Appeal under similar
circumstances. E.g., 389 U.S. at 237 n.1 (seeking certification not required); Ibanez v. Florida Dep’t of Bus. &
Prof’l Regul., 512 U.S. 136, 142 (1994) (granting certiorari when the “Court of Appeal ... affirmed the Board’s
final order per curiam without opinion,” leaving “no
right of review in the Florida Supreme Court”). As the
Florida case Nash cited explains, “[i]nherent in every
decision rendered by a District Court of Appeal is the
implication, unless otherwise stated or contrary action
taken, that it does not pass upon a question of great public interest.” Whitaker v. Jacksonville Expressway
Auth., 131 So. 2d 22, 23-24 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1961). In
other words, Florida law makes requesting certification
akin to requesting rehearing. And “finality is not deferred by the existence of a latent power in the rendering court to reopen or revise its judgment” because
“[s]uch latent powers of state courts over their judgments are too variable and indeterminate to serve as
tests of [this Court’s] jurisdiction.” Market St. Ry. Co.
v. Railroad Comm’n, 324 U.S. 548, 551-552 (1945).
Florida tries to circumvent Nash because Florida’s
Supreme Court later made a minor amendment to its appellate rules that codified a litigant’s ability to “move for
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certification.” Opp.6 n.2. But Nash recognized litigants
could already “file a suggestion” that certification was
appropriate, 389 U.S. at 327 n.1, and Florida points to
nothing suggesting such a ministerial change had substantive implications. Instead, “the purpose of the new
language ... was not to provide for a different type of reconsideration, but rather to permit a party to move for
certification without being first required to move for rehearing.” DeBiasi v. Snaith, 732 So. 2d 14, 16 (Fla. Dist.
Ct. App. 1999). The Florida Supreme Court accordingly
had no occasion to reconsider the principle underlying
Nash—i.e., a certification request is akin to requesting
rehearing.
Florida’s authority is not to the contrary. The two
cases Florida cites involve other States and predated
Nash (meaning the Nash Court necessarily considered
them). Gotthilf v. Sills turned on the peculiarities of
New York’s procedure for certifying interlocutory appeals of nonfinal orders, and—unlike here—the state
high court did not have direct jurisdiction over the petitioner’s request for review. 375 U.S. 79, 80 (1963). Because Section 1257 accounts for “the structure of [the
relevant state’s] judicial system” and “the particularized
provisions of [that state’s] laws,” Local 174 v. Lucas
Flour Co., 369 U.S. 95, 98 (1962), Gotthilf’s analysis of
New York law says nothing about Florida’s. Similarly,
Gorman dealt with a Missouri law that “expressly conferred the right to an en banc rehearing by the Supreme
Court of Missouri.” Local 174, 369 U.S. at 99. Here,
there was no rehearing “as a matter of right.” Id.
B. Harmless Error
Florida contends (Opp.20-23) that Mr. Crane would
not benefit from a decision overruling Williams, but because the magnitude of the constitutional error was
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necessarily “not addressed by the Court of Appeals,” the
proper course would be to grant the petition and allow
the court below to consider harmlessness on remand.
Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718 n.7 (2005).
Regardless, federal courts roundly reject Florida’s
position, holding that “depriving a defendant of the verdict of twelve” is structural error requiring automatic
reversal. United States v. Curbelo, 343 F.3d 273, 281
(4th Cir. 2003). A court “simply cannot know what affect” adding one more juror “might have had on jury deliberations” without diverting into “pure speculation.”
Id. at 281-282.
Florida asserts (Opp.21-22) that conviction by 50%
of the constitutionally required 12 is analogous to the instructional error in Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 7
(1999). But Neder emphasized the flawed instruction
neither implicated a “‘defect affecting the framework in
which the trial proceeds,’” nor “‘vitiate[d] all the jury’s
findings.’” Id. at 8-13. Not so here. Florida does not
even attempt to explain how a court could account for
the views of a half-dozen unknown individuals, all of
whom must agree with the existing six for Mr. Crane’s
conviction to stand.
II. THE COURT SHOULD OVERRULE WILLIAMS
“[S]tare decisis is at its nadir” in cases “concerning
[criminal] procedur[e] rules that implicate fundamental
constitutional protection.” Alleyne v. United States, 570
U.S. 99, 116 n.5 (2013). Here, every factor this Court
considers when evaluating precedent favors overruling
Williams.
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A. Egregiously Wrong
Florida’s chief defense of Williams rests on sleight
of hand. Florida notes Williams “devoted 13 pages to
the history and development of the common-law jury
and the Sixth Amendment” but concluded “the word
‘jury’ in the Sixth Amendment did not codify” the 12person requirement. Opp.8. To be clear, Williams came
to that conclusion not because of the history but in spite
of it. Williams rejected a test governed by “purely historical considerations” in favor of a functionalist approach, all while acknowledging the historical record is
clear that “the size of the jury at common law [was] fixed
generally at 12.” 399 U.S. at 89, 99; accord Khorrami,
143 S.Ct. at 23-24 (Gorsuch, J., dissenting) (summarizing
history). Had Williams applied the Ramos test, it could
not have reached the same result.
Florida’s remaining attempts to defend Williams
are similarly unavailing.
First, Florida argues that the Sixth Amendment did
not “codif[y]” all common-law jury practices. Opp.9. Ramos, however, rejected this approach when it refused to
distinguish between “the historic features of common
law jury trial that (we think) serve ‘important enough’
functions to migrate silently into the Sixth Amendment
and those that don’t.” 140 S.Ct. at 1400-1401. Instead,
the question is simply what “the right to trial by jury
included” “at the time of the Sixth Amendment’s adoption.” Id. at 1402.3
3
Florida’s suggestion (Opp.9-10) that the Ramos test requires
“that a jury consist only of male landowners hailing from a particular county” was again rejected in Ramos itself. 140 S.Ct. at 1402
n.47 (“further constitutional amendments … prohibit [such] invidious discrimination”).
8
Florida relatedly relies on the “drafting history” of
the Sixth Amendment. Opp.10-12. But Ramos explained that the “snippet of drafting history” Williams
and Florida cite “could just as easily support the opposite inference”—i.e., certain omitted language was unnecessary “surplusage.” 140 S.Ct. at 1400. In any event,
this argument “proves too much” because ignoring common-law history would “leave the right to a ‘trial by jury’
devoid of meaning.” Id.
Second, Florida distinguishes Ramos because it
overruled “a uniquely fractured decision,” while Williams garnered “a solid majority.” Opp.12. But this distinction does nothing to square Ramos’s six-vote holding
with Williams. Indeed, Ramos explained that to the extent Apodaca established binding precedent, it should
be overruled. 140 S.Ct. at 1404-1405.
Third, Florida defends Williams’s functionalist
logic, including by noting it was not overruled by Ballew.
Opp.13-18. But Ballew refused to extend Williams’s
logic to 5-member juries precisely because Williams’s
foundations had been undermined. Ballew v. Georgia,
435 U.S. 223, 232-237 (1978); see also Pet.7-8.
Post-Ballew studies have repeatedly proved the
Ballew Court right. Twelve-person juries share more
ideas and challenges to conclusions during longer,
higher-quality deliberations. E.g., Saks & Marti, A
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Jury Size, 21 Law &
Hum. Behav. 451, 458-459 (1997) (considering 17 studies); see generally ABA, Principles for Juries and Jury
Trials, Principle 3 cmt., at 17-21 (2005) (endorsing 12member-jury rule). A smaller jury also decreases the
probability that members of minority groups (be they
racial, religious, political, or socio-economic) will serve.
9
See, e.g., Rose et al., Jury Pool Underrepresentation in
the Modern Era, 15 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 2 (2018).
Florida’s contrary “scholarship” is inapposite. One
article did not study six-person juries—it considered
whether breaking a 12-member jury into four-person
discussion groups would promote deliberation. Waller
et al., Twelve (Not So) Angry Men, 14 Grp. Processes &
Intergrp. Rels. 835, 839 (2011). The others studied (1)
unconstitutional five-member groups, Fay et al., Group
Discussion as Interactive Dialogue or as Serial Monologue, 11 Psychol. Sci. 481, 481 (2000) or (2) mathematical
models (as opposed to testing actual people/juries),
Mukhopadhaya, Jury Size and the Free Rider Problem,
19 J. L. Econ. & Org. 24, 27-43 (2003); Parisi & Luppi,
Jury Size and the Hung-Jury Paradox, 42 J. Legal Stud.
399, 408 (2013); Guerra et al., Accuracy of Verdicts, 28
Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 221, 232 (2020). And while Florida
cites (Opp.15-17) conviction rates across States, it neither identifies scholarship interpreting those numbers
nor attempts to control for divergent features and practices of state law (e.g., frequency of guilty pleas).
Finally, Florida argues there is nothing “nefarious”
about the fact that Florida law changed the minimum
jury size from 12 to six a few weeks after federal troops
left following Reconstruction. Opp.17-18. But at least
some States “restricted the size of juries … to suppress
minority voices in public affairs,” Khorrami, 143 S.Ct. at
27 (Gorsuch, J., dissenting), and Florida identifies no
reason the racist political forces that held sway in late
19th century Florida were any different. It responds
that the State “retained 12-person juries in capital
cases.” Opp.18. But that 12-member juries are warranted in cases where the defendant faces death only
supports that 12-member juries are more rights-protective than six-person juries.
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B. Significant Negative Consequences
Williams has had negative jurisprudential consequences. A split Ballew Court struggled to apply the
functionalist approach, with members acknowledging
that the six-member line had little justification. Pet.7-8.
And Ramos necessarily rejected Williams’s approach.
The cases Florida cites (Opp.12) as “reaffirming” Williams mention the decision only in passing or rely on the
reasoning Ramos rejected.4
Williams has also had real-world consequences, as a
“drop in jury size” poses a threat to the “representativeness” of the jury and the “reliability” of the verdict.
ABA, Principles for Juries and Jury Trials, Principle 3
cmt., at 19-20. “[T]hat smaller panels tend to skew jury
composition and impair the right to a fair trial … is a sad
truth borne out by hard experience.” Khorrami, 143
S.Ct. at 27 (Gorsuch, J., dissenting). Florida does not
dispute a 12-member jury will sweep in a broader crosssection of the community, arguing only that the “faircross-section requirement applies” to the jury pool, not
the jury itself. Opp.18 n.15. But the available evidence
establishes that 12-member juries at least increase the
odds that jurors will embody the cross-section of humanity in the venire—an outcome Williams wrongly dismissed as “unrealistic,” 399 U.S. at 102.
4
Interpreting the Sixth Amendment does not require a change
in Seventh Amendment jurisprudence. The latter’s reference to
“Suits at common law”—which “is not directed to jury characteristics, such as size, but rather the kind of cases for which jury trial is
preserved,” Colgrove v. Battin, 413 U.S. 149, 152 (1973)—could preclude adopting attributes of the common-law jury. And the Sixth
Amendment should be more protective: It protects “liberty” rather
than “property.” Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607, 632 (2003).
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C. Reliance
Florida argues the reliance here “far outstrip[s]”
that in Ramos (Opp.19), but asserts the same interest:
re-trying a discrete number of non-final felony convictions. Almost any new rule of criminal procedure will
“affect[] significant numbers of pending cases across the
whole country.” Ramos, 140 S.Ct. at 1406.
Florida also contends the number of convictions affected distinguishes this case from Ramos. Opp.19. To
be clear, this case would affect only those felony proceedings where a trial has been held and the case is not yet
final on appeal—a number that is currently historically
low due to the COVID-19 pandemic.5 While Florida
claims without support (Opp.19) that it would have to
conduct “several thousand” retrials, this Court granted
certiorari in Ramos despite Louisiana’s argument that
requiring jury unanimity “could ... upset” “[t]housands
of final convictions.” Opp.4, Ramos, No. 18-5924 (U.S.).
Moreover, this Court vacated “nearly 800 decisions” following Booker and “similar consequences likely followed” Crawford and Gant. Ramos, 140 S.Ct. at 1406.
Ultimately, Florida ignores “the most important”
“reliance interest” of all—that “of the American people”
“in the preservation of our constitutionally promised liberties.” Ramos, 140 S.Ct. at 1408 (plurality op.). Nearly
50 million Americans are currently denied a right the
Framers intended all to enjoy, even while Florida recognizes that a 12-member jury is so important and fundamental that it is a necessary safeguard in death-penalty
cases. This Court alone has authority to step in and protect the rights of those millions. It should do so.
5
E.g., Florida Office of the State Courts Administrator,
FY2021-22 Statistical Reference Guide 3-20 to 3-22 (2023), https://
tinyurl.com/22tn3z32.
12
CONCLUSION
The petition should be granted or held. See supra
n.1.
Respectfully submitted.
CAREY HAUGHWOUT
Public Defender
PAUL EDWARD PETILLO
Assistant Public
Defender
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC
DEFENDER
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA
421 Third Street
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
SETH P. WAXMAN
Counsel of Record
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING
HALE AND DORR LLP
1875 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 663-6000
seth.waxman@wilmerhale.com
THOMAS G. SPRANKLING
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING
HALE AND DORR LLP
ALEX W. MILLER
2600 El Camino Real
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING Suite 400
HALE AND DORR LLP
Palo Alto, CA 94306
7 World Trade Center
LEAH FUGERE*
250 Greenwich Street
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING
New York, NY 10007
HALE AND DORR LLP
350 S. Grand Avenue
Suite 2400
Los Angeles, CA 90071
* Not admitted in California. Admitted to practice
in Colorado. Supervised by
members of the firm who
are members of the California bar.
OCTOBER 2023
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