Henry Lee Jones, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Jones's first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. It upheld admission of collateral-crime evidence, concluded that no limiting instruction was required absent a request, found that Jones validly waived presentation of mitigation to the penalty-phase jury, and held that any sentencing error concerning the prior-violent-felony aggravator and jury findings was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Justice Quince would have ordered resentencing based on harmful jury-finding error, and Justice Pariente would have excluded the collateral-crime evidence and reversed the conviction.