Beamon v. Secretary, Department of Corrections (Duval County)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE DIVISION FLOYD BEAMON, Petitioner, v. Case No. 3:20-cv-1118-MMH-PDB SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., Respondents. ________________________________ ORDER I. Status Petitioner Floyd Beamon, an inmate of the Florida penal system, initiated this action by filing a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus under

28 U.S.C. § 2254

(Petition; Doc. 1).1 In the Petition, Beamon challenges a 2009 state court (Duval County, Florida) judgment of conviction for second-degree murder with a firearm. He raises eight grounds for…