Richard Eugene Hamilton, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee.

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Hamilton’s successive postconviction motion and requests for additional public records. It held that the motion was filed outside the applicable one-year period and that no timeliness exception applied, and it found no abuse of discretion in denying records that were of questionable relevance and unlikely to lead to discoverable evidence. Justice Pariente, dissenting, would have applied the later constitutional sentencing decision retroactively, vacated the death sentence, and granted a new penalty phase.