Hector Sanchez-Torres v. State of Florida

Summary

The court affirmed the summary denial of Sanchez-Torres’s successive postconviction motion seeking to vacate his death sentence. It held that relative-culpability analysis did not apply because the codefendant was legally ineligible for the death penalty, and that evidence concerning the codefendant did not mitigate Sanchez-Torres’s sentence because the sentencing court had not relied on a triggerman finding. The court did not reach the trial court’s timeliness ruling because the claims failed on the merits.