Franklin v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of the first-degree murder of a corrections officer at the Columbia Correctional Institution. The jury ultimately recommended a sentence of death, and the trial court sentenced Defendant to death. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s conviction but vacated his death sentence, holding (1) the record sufficiently supports Defendant’s conviction of first-degree murder; but (2) Florida’s capital sentencing scheme is unconstitutional in light of the United States Supreme Court’s decisions in Ring v. Arizona and Hurst v. Florida because the jury that recommended death did not find the facts necessary to sentence Defendant to death, and the error was not harmless. Remanded for a new penalty phase proceeding.
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