Hall v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted and sentenced to death for the first-degree premeditated murder of a corrections officer. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions and sentence. Defendant later filed a motion to vacate his judgment of conviction and sentence pursuant to Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.851, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and that his execution will violate his constitutional rights. The postconviction court denied relief. Defendant appealed and also filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the jury instructions in capital sentencing are unconstitutional and that trial counsel was ineffective in litigating constitutional challenges to Florida’s capital sentencing statute. The Supreme Court affirmed the postconviction court’s denial of Defendant’s postconviction motion, holding (1) Defendant failed to demonstrate that the postconviction court erred in finding that no Strickland error occurred; (2) Defendant’s claim of possible incompetence at the time of execution was not ripe for review; and (3) Defendant failed to establish that he was entitled to habeas relief.
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