Dolan Darling A/k/a Sean Smith, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee; Dolan Darling A/k/a Sean Smith…

Summary

The court affirmed denial of Darling's successive postconviction motion, rejecting his constitutional challenge to Florida's lethal-injection protocol and his challenge to the confidentiality statute governing executioners. It also held that Capital Collateral Regional Counsel attorneys may represent capital defendants in narrowly defined federal civil-rights actions seeking injunctive relief against the State's intended method of execution because those claims are collateral proceedings related to the judgment and sentence. The partial dissent would have denied all relief, concluding that the governing statutes exclude such civil-rights litigation from CCRC's authority.