Mansfield v. State

The Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court’s denial of Appellant’s motion filed pursuant to Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.851, which sought relief pursuant to the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), and the Supreme Court’s decision on remand in Hurst v. State (Hurst), 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016).Appellant was sentenced to death following a jury’s unanimous recommendation for death. The death sentence became final in 2001. In affirming the denial of Appellant’s motion, the Supreme Court held that Hurst does not apply retroactively to Mansfield’s sentence of death. View "Mansfield v. State" on Justia Law