Hodges v. State

The Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court’s order denying George Michael Hodges’s motion filed under Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.851, holding that Hodges 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). Hodges was sentenced to death following a jury’s recommendation for death by a vote of ten to two. Hodges’s sentence of death became final in 1993. The Supreme Court held that Hurst did not apply retroactively to Hodges’s sentence of death and, accordingly, affirmed the denial of Hodges’s motion. View "Hodges v. State" on Justia Law