Barry Trynell Davis, Jr., Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Davis’s convictions for two first-degree murders, rejecting his challenges to the scope of a residential search, the admission of testimony about his prior possession of a revolver, the use of a photograph during closing argument, and the sufficiency of the evidence. It vacated both death sentences because the jury’s nine-to-three and ten-to-two death recommendations were nonunanimous, making the sentencing error not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. The court remanded for a new penalty phase and declined to address Davis’s remaining penalty-phase claims.