KENNETH LOUIS DESSAURE v. STATE OF FLORIDA (2017)

Supreme Court of Florida.

KENNETH LOUIS DESSAURE, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

No. SC17-1075

Decided: November 16, 2017

James V. Viggiano, Jr., Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Mark S. Gruber, and Julie A. Morley, Assistant Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Middle Region, Temple Terrace, Florida, for Appellant Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, and Stephen D. Ake, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, Florida, for Appellee

We hereby affirm the trial court's denial of Kenneth Louis Dessaure's successive motion for postconviction relief. See Mullens v. State, 197 So. 3d 16, 40 (Fla. 2016) (determining that defendant who validly waived penalty phase jury was not entitled to relief under Hurst because a defendant “cannot subvert the right to jury factfinding by waiving that right and then suggesting that a subsequent development in the law has fundamentally undermined his sentence”), cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 672 (2017); see also Brant v. State, 197 So. 3d 1051, 1079 (Fla. 2016) (relying on Mullens to conclude that a claim for Hurst relief after defendant waived penalty phase jury was equally precluded in the postconviction context).

It is so ordered.

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED.

PER CURIAM.

LABARGA, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, POLSTON, and LAWSON, JJ., concur.

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