Wright v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of robbery, and one count of carjacking. The trial court sentenced Defendant to death for each murder and life imprisonment for each of his other convictions. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions and sentences. Defendant later filed an amended motion to vacate his judgment and sentences and a renewed motion for determination of intellectual disability. The postconviction court denied both motions. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the postconviction court properly determined that Defendant is not among those intellectually disabled defendants that cannot be executed; (2) with regard to every claim raised in Defendant’s amended motion to vacate his judgment and sentences, Defendant failed to demonstrate that the postconviction court erred in finding no Strickland error occurred; and (3) Defendant was not entitled to relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida.
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