Lucious Boyd, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee; Lucious Boyd, Petitioner, v. Julie L. Jones

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Boyd's postconviction motion and denied his habeas petition. It held that the service of jurors who were statutorily disqualified because of prior criminal histories did not require a new trial absent legally sufficient evidence of actual bias, and it rejected Boyd's ineffective-assistance claims because counsel's challenged decisions were reasonable or caused no prejudice. Justice Lewis, concurring in result only, would have treated the felon-juror issue as a structural defect requiring a new trial but deferred to existing precedent.