Anthony Mungin v. State of Florida
Anthony Mungin v. State of Florida
Opinion
We have for review Anthony Mungin's appeal of the postconviction court's order denying Mungin's motion filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851. This Court has jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. For the reasons explained below, we affirm the postconviction court's order.
FACTS AND BACKGROUND
Mungin was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death following a jury's recommendation for death by a vote of seven to five.
Mungin v. State
,
Betty Jean Woods, a convenience store clerk in Jacksonville, was shot once in the head on September 16, 1990, and died four days later. There were no eyewitnesses to the shooting, but shortly after Woods was shot a customer entering the store passed a man leaving the store hurriedly with a paper bag. The *717 customer, who found the injured clerk, later identified the man as Mungin.
In January 2017, Mungin filed the successive motion for postconviction relief at issue in this case seeking relief pursuant to the United States Supreme Court's decision in
Hurst v. Florida
, --- U.S. ----,
This Court stayed Mungin's appeal pending the disposition of
Hitchcock v. State
,
ANALYSIS
As stated above, Mungin's sentence of death became final in 1997. Based on this Court's precedent,
Hurst
does not apply retroactively to his sentence of death.
CONCLUSION
For the reasons explained above, we affirm the postconviction court's order denying Mungin's claims seeking Hurst relief. 1
It is so ordered.
LEWIS, QUINCE, POLSTON, LABARGA, and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
CANADY, C.J., concurs in result.
PARIENTE, J., concurs in result with an opinion.
PARIENTE, J., concurring in result.
I write separately because I continue to adhere to the views expressed in my dissenting opinion in
Hitchcock
2
that
Hurst
3
*718
should apply retroactively to cases like Mungin's.
Hitchcock
,
Applying
Hurst
to Mungin's sentence of death, I would grant a new penalty phase based on the jury's nonunanimous recommendation for death by a vote of seven to five. Per curiam op. at 1. Further, I agree with Justice Anstead's dissenting opinion in Mungin's direct appeal, arguing that Mungin was entitled to a retrial because the evidence was insufficient to sustain a finding of premeditation.
Mungin v. State
,
We do not address Mungin's motion to disqualify the judge who issued that order because it was untimely.
Hitchcock v. State
,
Hurst v. State
(
Hurst
),
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Anthony MUNGIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
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- Published