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    Anyone that runs out of appeals in Florida has a chance of being picked.
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    But is there any varible that would increase his chance?

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    Rick Scott tends to target people who killed women and children, law enforcement, who are otherwise the "worst of the worst." It's unlikely, for example, that someone who shot someone in a run of the mill robbery with get picked. Other than that it's a crapshoot who gets picked.
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    Duval County don't play, I think they have 50 or 51 of Florida's death row inmates. Out of 67 Florida counties, DUVAL has convicted 14% of male death row inmates. Keep up the good work.

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    On June 9, 2017, Thomas filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/fl...cv00662/338050
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    Supreme Court rejects 10 more death penalty appeals

    By News Service of Florida

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - With the total number of similar rulings reaching 30 over three days, the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected appeals by another 10 Death Row inmates challenging their death sentences.

    Justices, in a highly unusual move, have released batches of 10 rulings each day this week, with all of the cases dealing with issues about jury unanimity. The appeals were based on a 2016 U.S.Supreme Court opinion in a case known as Hurst v. Florida and a subsequent Florida Supreme Court decision.

    The 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling found Florida's death-penalty sentencing system was unconstitutional because it gave too much authority to judges, instead of juries.

    The subsequent Florida Supreme Court ruling said juries must unanimously agree on critical findings before judges can impose death sentences and must unanimously recommend the death penalty. But the Florida Supreme Court made the new sentencing requirements apply to cases since June 2002.

    That is when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling known as Ring v. Arizona that was a premise for striking down Florida's death-penalty sentencing system in 2016. In each of the cases Wednesday, the Death Row inmates had been sentenced to death before the Ring decision and argued that the new sentencing requirements should also apply to their cases.

    The inmates who lost their appeals Wednesday were Donald David Dilbeck in a Leon County case; Steven Maurice Evans in an Orange County case; Etheria Verdell Jackson in a Duval County case; Gregory Alan Kokal in a Duval County case; Harold Gene Lucas in a Lee County case; John Christopher Marquard in a St. Johns County case; William Earl Sweet in a Duval County case; Steven Richard Taylor in a Duval County case; William Gregory Thomas in a Duval County case; and Robert J. Trease in a Sarasota County case.

    https://www.news4jax.com/news/florid...enalty-appeals

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    On June 17, 2020, oral argument will be heard in Thomas' appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

    http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/sites/d...29_WThomas.pdf

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    After finding that Florida death-row prisoner William Greg Thomas was entitled to present an untimely habeas corpus petition because his prior lawyer had abandoned him, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reviewed but denied Thomas’ challenge to his conviction and death sentence. The court held that Thomas was entitled to equitable tolling of the habeas corpus statute of limitations but ruled that his ineffective assistance claims were either procedurally barred or without merit.

    (source: Death Penalty Information Center)
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    En banc rehearing denied May 17, 2021.

    Final petition for writ of certiorari filed October 14, 2021.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search....c\21-6031.html
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    Final appeal distributed for conference January 7, 2022.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/21-6031.html
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