Ronnie Keith Williams, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of postconviction relief on Williams's public-records, initial-trial-counsel, conflict-of-interest, and intellectual-disability claims. It did not reach the ineffective-assistance claim concerning penalty-phase counsel because Williams was entitled to a new penalty phase based on the nonunanimous death recommendation and the governing capital-sentencing requirements. The court vacated the death sentence and remanded for a new penalty phase. Canady, J., joined by Polston, J., would have affirmed the denial of all postconviction relief, while Lawson, J., concurred specially without substantive reasoning in the separate writing provided.