No. 18-8323

Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2019-03-07
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-review eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-recommendation newly-discovered-evidence
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment Immigration
Latest Conference: 2019-05-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require the law of Hurst v. State to be factored into the analysis of the likelihood of a less severe sentence at a new penalty phase at which the newly discovered evidence is introduced?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED--CAPITAL CASE ; : Context ; Under Florida law, post conviction relief is available when it is shown that: 1) newly discovered evidence exists that was : not previously available despite the defendant’s exercise of due diligence, and 2) it is probable that at a new trial and/or a new penalty phase that if the new evidence is introduced either the result will be an acquittal or at least a less severe sentence.' To decide whether a new trial or resentencing should, be ordered, the reviewing court must look to whether the new \ trial or resentencing, if granted, would probably produce a different outcome. Armstrong v. State, 642 So. 2d 730, 735 (Fla. 1994) (“Only when it appears that, on a new trial, the witness's testimony will change to such an extent as to render probable a different verdict will a new trial be granted.”). When a : resentencing is sought on a newly discovered evidence claim, the : court looks to see whether it is likely that the outcome of a resentencing would produce a less severe sentence, i.e. here, a ; life sentence.? n

Docket Entries

2019-05-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2019.
2019-04-04
Brief of respondent State of Florida in opposition filed.
2019-03-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 8, 2019)
2019-01-03
Application (18A691) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until March 3, 2019.
2018-12-22
Application (18A691) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 2, 2019 to March 3, 2019, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Bryan Jennings
Martin J. McClainCCRC-South, Petitioner
Martin J. McClainCCRC-South, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent