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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Florida’s bid to enforce a state law that targets drag show performances that, challengers say, imposes unlawful restrictions on free ...
A Florida Supreme Court decision involving the death penalty has thrown between 100 to 150 cases into legal limbo, experts say. “No one knows how broadly the court will attempt to apply it ...
Florida's highest court on Thursday rejected an effort by a suspended state attorney to get reinstated after she was removed from office last year by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in his second ...
This new sentencing scheme was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court in a ruling 5–2 in October 2016, which held that a death sentence must be issued by a unanimous jury. [28] The United States Supreme Court later left this decision undisturbed. [29] Governor Scott in early 2017 signed a new law requiring a unanimous jury. [30]
The justices, in a unanimous decision, denied a motion to stay the execution of Jose Antonia Jimenez, 55, who was convicted in the 1992 murder of a Miami-Dade County woman. Florida Supreme Court ...
In the first case, 454 U.S. 1037 (1981), [1] the Supreme Court, with two dissents, refused Spaziano's petition for certiorari. However, the Florida Supreme Court would reverse Spaziano's death sentence based on the judge's receipt of a confidential report which was not received by either party.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday that an initiative to legalize the recreational use of marijuana can appear on the state's ballot in November.. The proposed amendment would allow people 21 ...
politician and a jurist in Florida, 59th Justice of the Florida Supreme Court and later served as its Chief Justice Joseph A. Boyd Jr. (November 16, 1916 – October 26, 2007) was a politician and a jurist in Florida .