Published opinions from 2016. The case name opens the case page.
October 20, 201641 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 466
The Florida Supreme Court reversed the circuit court’s summary denial of Frank Walls’ intellectual‑disability claim and remanded for a new evidentiary hearing applying the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Hall v. Florida.
October 14, 201641 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 433
On remand from the United States Supreme Court's Hurst v. Florida reversal, the court held that the Sixth Amendment requires the jury, not the judge, to find every fact necessary to impose a death sentence—each aggravating factor proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the sufficiency of the aggravation, and that…
February 25, 201641 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 70
The Florida Supreme Court held that James Roughton's dual convictions for capital sexual battery and lewd or lascivious molestation arising from a single act do not violate the double jeopardy prohibition because each offense contains an element the other does not under §775.021(4)(a).