Stephens v. State
Annotate this CaseThe Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court’s order denying Jason Demetrius Stephens' motion filed pursuant to Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.851 and denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that Stephens was not entitled to relief pursuant to the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), and this court’s decision on remand in Hurst v. State (Hurst), 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016). Stephens was sentenced to death following a jury’s recommendation for death by a vote of nine to three. Stephens' sentence became final in 2001. The Supreme Court held that Hurst did not apply retroactively to Stephens' sentence of death.
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