Williams v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery. The jury recommended that Defendant be sentenced to death for the murder by a vote of nine to three. After concluding that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating circumstances, the trial court imposed the death penalty. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions but reversed the death sentence in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Hurst v. Florida and the Florida Supreme Court’s opinion on remand in Hurst v. State, holding that Defendant’s sentence was a result of a Hurst error, and the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Remanded for a new penalty phase.
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