Jason Dirk Walton v. State of Florida & SC17-1083 Jason Dirk Walton v. Julie L. Jones

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Walton's successive postconviction motions and denied his habeas petition. It held that a cumulative newly discovered-evidence analysis does not include later changes in decisional law, that Walton could not use that theory to obtain retroactive application of later capital-sentencing precedent, and that his codefendants' lesser sentences did not establish disproportionality. Because Walton's death sentences became final before the relevant constitutional cutoff, the court also rejected his capital-sentencing and Eighth Amendment claims.