Miami Criminal Defense Law Blog

In 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States, in Hurst v. Florida, held that Florida’s death penalty sentencing scheme violated one’s Sixth Amendment right because a jury must find the aggravating factors necessary for imposing a death sentence as opposed to solely...

Earlier this month, the Florida Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty law because the law didn’t require jurors to be unanimous (i.e., 12 out of 12 jurors ) when imposing the punishment. State legislators had rushed to fix the law earlier this year after...