James Milton Dailey v. State of Florida
James Milton Dailey v. State of Florida
Opinion
We have for review James Milton Dailey's appeal of the circuit court's order denying Dailey's motion filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851. This Court has jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.
Dailey's motion sought relief pursuant to the United States Supreme Court's decision in
Hurst v. Florida
, --- U.S. ----,
After reviewing Dailey's response to the order to show cause, as well as the State's arguments in reply, we conclude that Dailey is not entitled to relief. Dailey was sentenced to death following a jury's unanimous recommendation for death.
Dailey v. State
,
The Court having carefully considered all arguments raised by Dailey, we caution that any rehearing motion containing reargument will be stricken. It is so ordered.
LABARGA, C.J., and LEWIS, POLSTON, and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
PARIENTE, J., concurs in result with an opinion.
CANADY, J., concurs in result.
QUINCE, J., recused.
PARIENTE, J., concurring in result.
For reasons I have explained numerous times, despite this Court's precedent, I would apply
Hurst
2
retroactively to Dailey's sentence of death.
See
Hitchcock v. State
,
In 1991, after Dailey's penalty phase before a jury, this Court determined that the trial court made several errors in sentencing Dailey to death.
See generally
Dailey
,
Of course, this Court's opinion in
Hurst
made clear that the jury is critical to the constitutional imposition of the death penalty.
See
In this case, it is clear that Dailey's penalty phase jury considered invalid aggravating factors in recommending a sentence of death. Therefore, if Hurst applied to Dailey's case, this Court could not rely on the jury's unanimous recommendation for death to determine that the Hurst error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Even more, when this Court remanded for resentencing, Dailey's sentence of death was reviewed by a single trial judge alone. Thus, as a result of this Court's arbitrary framework for determining the retroactivity of Hurst , Dailey remains under an unconstitutionally unreliable sentence of death.
In affirming Dailey's death sentence after resentencing, we affirmed the death sentence, rejecting Dailey's arguments that his penalty phase jury's "recommendation of death was invalid and he was entitled to an entire new penalty phase trial before a new jury."
Dailey
,
Hurst v. State
(
Hurst
),
Reference
- Full Case Name
- James Milton DAILEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
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