The resentencing hearing was about to enter its third day on April 27 when the 5 th District Court of Appeal granted a request by the Attorney General’s Office and prosecutors to stop the resentencing while it considered a request to use the new law. The trial judge originally denied the prosecutors' motion to apply the new law. The previous law required a unanimous jury recommendation. Ron DeSantis signed the new statute, which requires an 8-4 death recommendation from the jury, on April 20, the same day that a 15-member jury was sworn in for the case. The latest motions are part of the legal battle over prosecutors’ so-far winning effort to apply Florida’s new non-unanimous death-penalty recommendation to the Xbox mass murder resentencing.
The resentencing is set to begin again Tuesday at the Volusia County Courthouse in DeLand. It wasn't immediately clear why the defense added Larizza and the prosecutors to the witness list.
Xbox mass murder dense: Defense in Xbox trial says new death penalty law would violate accused killers' rightsĭeltona Xbox mass murder back in court: 2 men convicted in Deltona mass murder face death penalty again after sentences overturned Xbox resentencing resumes Tuesday: Xbox murder resentencing trial will resume Tuesday under new death penalty law The records in question deal with the use of the new non-unanimous death recommendation law in the resentencing of Hunter and Troy Victorino.īesides Larizza, the defense attorneys also listed as witnesses Assistant State Attorneys John Reid and Jason Lewis, Heatha Trigones and Andrew Urbanak – all high-ranking prosecutors at the State Attorney’s Office Trigones and Urbanak are the two prosecuting Victorino and Hunter. The defense attorneys for Jerone Hunter are also asking Circuit Judge Randell Rowe III to order the State Attorney’s Office to produce records the defense requested on April 24 but has yet to receive. Larizza along with the prosecutors in the case. Jerone Hunter, front, and Troy Victorino enter the courtroom at the start of their penalty retrial on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.Īttorneys for one of the men in the Deltona Xbox mass murder resentencing case have listed new defense witnesses and it’s an unusual lineup: 7 th Circuit State Attorney R.J.
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