LAMBRIX v. STATE

No. SC16-8, No. SC16-56.

217 So.3d 977 (2017)

Cary Michael LAMBRIX, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. Cary Michael Lambrix, Petitioner, v. Julie L. Jones, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

March 9, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal Andre Dupree , Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Southern Region, William McKinley Hennis, III, Litigation Director, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Southern Region, Martin J. McClain , Special Assistant, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Southern Region, and Jessica Leigh Houston , Michael Chance Meyer , and Bryan E. Martinez , Staff Attorneys, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Southern Region, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for Appellant/Petitioner.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida; Scott Andrew Browne , Senior Assistant Attorney General, and C. Suzanne Bechard , Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, Florida, for Appellee/Respondent.

Howard L. Dimmig, II , Public Defender, and Robert Arthur Young , Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, Florida, for Amicus Curiae Florida Public Defender Association.

Billy Horatio Nolas , Chief, Capital Habeas Unit, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Tallahassee, Florida, for Amicus Curiae Capital Habeas Unit of the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Florida.

Nancy Gbana Abudu , Miami, Florida, and Norman Adam Tebrugge , Tampa, Florida, for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.

Sonya Rudenstine , Gainesville, Florida, and Karen Marcia Gottlieb , Florida Center for Capital Representation, Florida International University College of Law, Miami, Florida, for Amicus Curiae Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.


Cary Michael Lambrix is a prisoner under sentence of death for whom a death warrant was signed. This Court stayed the death warrant as a result of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, ___ U.S. ___, 136 S.Ct. 616, 619, 193 L.Ed.2d 504 (2016), to determine if...

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