Supreme Court of Florida
Patrick C. Hannon, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee; Patrick C. Hannon, Appellant, v. State of Florida, Appellee
November 1, 2017228 So. 3d 505
Summary
The court affirmed the denial of Hannon's third and fourth successive postconviction motions and denied stays of execution. It held that Hannon's lethal-injection, gubernatorial-warrant, proportionality, records-request, and Hurst-related claims were either meritless, procedurally barred, untimely, moot, or foreclosed by controlling precedent. Justice Pariente, dissenting, would have applied Hurst retroactively and granted relief because the jury lacked substantial mitigation evidence and allegedly received constitutionally inadequate instructions.