Supreme Court of Florida

John D. Freeman v. State of Florida

August 13, 2020300 So. 3d 591

Summary

The court affirmed the summary denial of Freeman’s second successive postconviction motion. It held that he was not entitled to retroactive Hurst relief because his death sentence became final before Ring, and that his intellectual-disability claim was untimely under the governing postconviction rule. The court therefore declined to grant an evidentiary hearing or other relief.