STEPHENS v. SECRETARY, FLA. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 11-11727.

678 F.3d 1219 (2012)

Jason Demetrius STEPHENS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 1, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Todd Doss (Court-Appointed), Law Office of D. Todd Doss, Lake City, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Meredith Charbula , Office of the Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and WILSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Jason Demetrius Stephens, a Florida prisoner on death row, appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Stephens first argues that the trial court erred in sentencing him to death because his sentence is unconstitutionally disproportionate pursuant to the Eighth Amendment and the Supreme Court jurisprudence laid out in Enmund...

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