William Lee Thompson v. State of Florida

Summary

The court affirmed the summary denial of Thompson’s seventh postconviction motion seeking a hearing on his intellectual-disability claim. It held that an intervening change in controlling law permitted departure from the prior mandate requiring a hearing because the controlling law no longer allowed the claim to proceed retroactively. The court also held that the prior mandate did not vacate Thompson’s death sentence, so the law-of-the-case exception applicable to an intervening change in law governed.