Kenneth Hartley, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

The Court affirmed the denial of Hartley’s second successive postconviction motion seeking a life sentence based on his codefendant’s subsequent life sentence. It held that Hartley failed to show the codefendant’s sentence would probably result in a life sentence for Hartley on retrial because Hartley was the triggerman and dominant actor. The Court also rejected Hartley’s reliance on prior findings of equal culpability because those findings were vacated with the codefendant’s original sentence.