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Click to open document 12/10/2018 Death Penalty NOTICE-APPEAL (RESENTENCING) AA Jonathan Huey Lawrence 898522 BY: TA Spiro Theodore Kypreos 135237
Click to open document 12/10/2018 Death Penalty COPY OF THE LOWER TRIBUNAL ORDER/ACTION BEING APPEALED Judgment & Sentence
Click to open document 12/14/2018 Death Penalty COPY OF THE LOWER TRIBUNAL ORDER/ACTION BEING APPEALED Sentencing Order
12/14/2018 Death Penalty No Fee - Insolvent
12/14/2018 Death Penalty JURY VOTE Waived Right to Penalty Phase Jury
Click to open document 12/14/2018 Death Penalty ACKNOWLEDGMENT LETTER-NEW CASE Supreme Court Of Florida BY: Supreme Court Of Florida
Click to open document 12/14/2018 Death Penalty ORDER-RECORD FILING (HEARINGS/TRIAL) TR: 02/28/2019; ROA: 03/20/2019
Click to open document 01/24/2019 Death Penalty NOTICE-APPEARANCE AE State Of Florida state1 BY: AE Charmaine M. Millsaps 989134 Notice of Appearance as Counsel of Record
Click to open document 02/06/2019 Death Penalty STATUS REPORT Status Report - Record on Appeal
Click to open document 02/07/2019 Death Penalty RECORD/TRANSCRIPT Donald C. Spencer SANTA R BY: Donald C. Spencer SANTA R Filed Electronically (See Corrected Record & Transcript filed 4/12/2019)
02/07/2019 Death Penalty RECORD/TRANSCRIPT Donald C. Spencer SANTA R BY: Donald C. Spencer SANTA R Filed Electronically (Confidential)(See Corrected Record & Transcript filed 4/12/2019)
Click to open document 02/07/2019 Death Penalty TRANSCRIPT Donald C. Spencer SANTA R BY: Donald C. Spencer SANTA R Filed Electronically (See Corrected Record & Transcript filed 4/12/2019)
Click to open document 02/07/2019 Death Penalty TRANSCRIPT Donald C. Spencer SANTA R BY: Donald C. Spencer SANTA R Supplement - Filed Electronically (See Corrected Record & Transcript filed 4/12/2019)
02/12/2019 Death Penalty EXHIBITS Donald C. Spencer SANTA R BY: Donald C. Spencer SANTA R Copies of Record on Appeal & Exhibits (2 CDs Placed w/ File) (4/22/2019: Additional Copy of Exhibits Filed via CD)
Click to open document 02/13/2019 Death Penalty ORDER-DEP BRIEF SCHED (100) The record having been received by the Court, the briefs in the above styled case are to be filed as follows: Appellant's brief is to be filed on or before May 20, 2019; appellee's brief shall be filed seventy days after filing of appellant's brief; and appellant's reply brief shall be filed forty days after filing of appellee's brief. As the time for filing the briefs has already been extended, further motions for extension of time will be granted only due to a medical emergency.
Click to open document 02/26/2019 Death Penalty DESIGNATION-PUBLIC DEFENDER AA Jonathan Huey Lawrence 898522 BY: TA Spiro Theodore Kypreos 135237 Designation of Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit for Handling of Appeal
Click to open document 03/04/2019 Death Penalty MOTION-OTHER SUBSTANTIVE AE State Of Florida state1 BY: AE Charmaine M. Millsaps 989134 Motion to Correct the Record on Appeal
Click to open document 03/06/2019 Death Penalty MOTION-STRIKE AA Jonathan Huey Lawrence 898522 BY: AA Gail Elizabeth Anderson 841544 Response to Appellee's Motion to Correct the Record and Motion to Strike the "Designation of Appellate Counsel" Portion of Appellee's Motion
Click to open document 03/26/2019 Death Penalty ORDER-RECORD (RETURNED FOR CORRECTION) Appellee's Motion to Correct the Record on Appeal (copy attached) is granted. The court reporters are directed, on or before April 15, 2019, to file with the trial court clerk a corrected transcript of trial that is consecutively numbered as required by Rule 9.200(b)(4). The transcript of trial shall be in chronological order of court event, shall include a master trial index containing the names of the witnesses, list of exhibits and corresponding pages, and shall be paginated to exactly match the pagination of the master trial index as required by Rule 9.200(d)(2)(B). Pursuant to Rule 9.200(d)(1)(A), the transcript of the trial shall be kept separate from the remainder of the record on appeal and shall not be renumbered by the clerk. Counsel for appellant is directed to deliver a copy of this order to all court reporters involved in the transcription and to provide the necessary direction to ensure that the transcript is filed within the time period designated. The trial court clerk is directed, on or before May 6, 2019, to file an unredacted trial transcript as well as a corrected and unredacted record. Pursuant to Rule 9.200(d)(1)(C), the entire record, except for the above-referenced trial transcript, shall be compiled into a single PDF file and paginated so that the page numbers displayed by the PDF reader exactly match the pagination of the index. Copies of the corrected record and transcript and any exhibits shall be transmitted to the appeals division of the Office of the Public Defender for the Second Judicial Circuit and Office of the Attorney General. Appellant's Motion to Strike the "Designation of Appellate Counsel" Portion of Appellee's Motion is denied. Appellant shall have 77 days from the filing of the corrected record in this Court in which to file the initial brief on the merits.
04/12/2019 Death Penalty RECORD/TRANSCRIPT Donald C. Spencer SANTA R BY: Donald C. Spencer SANTA R Corrected Record on Appeal (4/22/2019: Additional Copy Filed. 1 CD Placed w/ File.)
04/12/2019 Death Penalty TRANSCRIPT Donald C. Spencer SANTA R BY: Donald C. Spencer SANTA R Corrected Trial Transcript (4/22/2019: Additional Copy Filed. 1 CD Placed w/ File.)
04/12/2019 Death Penalty PRESENTENCE INVESTIGATION See Pages 1369-1402 of Corrected Record on Appeal.
Click to open document 06/28/2019 Death Penalty INITIAL BRIEF-MERITS AA Jonathan Huey Lawrence 898522 BY: AA Barbara J. Busharis 71780 Initial Brief of Appellant
Click to open document 09/06/2019 Death Penalty MOTION-EXT OF TIME (ANSWER BRIEF-MERITS) AE State Of Florida state1 BY: AE Charmaine M. Millsaps 989134 Motion for Extension of Time to File Answer Brief
Click to open document 09/09/2019 Death Penalty ORDER-EXT OF TIME GR (ANSWER BRIEF-MERITS) Appellee's motion for extension of time is granted, and appellee is allowed to and including September 18, 2019, in which to serve the answer brief on the merits. Multiple extensions of time for the same filing are discouraged. Absent extenuating circumstances, subsequent requests may be denied. All other times will be extended accordingly.
Click to open document 09/18/2019 Death Penalty ANSWER BRIEF-MERITS AE State Of Florida state1 BY: AE Charmaine M. Millsaps 989134 Answer Brief
Click to open document 10/28/2019 Death Penalty REPLY BRIEF-MERITS AA Jonathan Huey Lawrence 898522 BY: AA Barbara J. Busharis 71780 Reply Brief of Appellant
Click to open document 11/05/2019 Death Penalty ORDER-OA SCHED The above case is hereby scheduled for oral argument at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 4, 2020. A maximum of twenty minutes to the side is allowed for the argument, but counsel is expected to use only so much of that time as is necessary. NO CONTINUANCES WILL BE GRANTED EXCEPT UPON A SHOWING OF EXTREME HARDSHIP.
Click to open document 02/19/2020 Death Penalty NOTICE-SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORITY AE State Of Florida state1 BY: AE Charmaine M. Millsaps 989134 Notice of Supplemental Authority: State v. Poole, So.3d, 45 Fla. L. Weekly S40, 2020 WL 370302, *11-*13 (Fla. Jan. 23, 2020); State v. Poole, So.3d, 45 Fla. L. Weekly S40, 2020 WL 370302, *13-*14 (Fla. Jan. 23, 2020); Doty v. State, 2020 WL 717815, *5 (Fla. Feb. 13, 2020)
Click to open document 02/26/2020 Death Penalty NOTICE-SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORITY AE State Of Florida state1 BY: AE Charmaine M. Millsaps 989134 Notice of Supplemental Authority: McKinney v. Arizona,_ S.Ct. _, 2020 WL 889190, *3-*4 (Feb. 25, 2020)
03/04/2020 Death Penalty ORAL ARGUMENT HELD
Click to open document 10/29/2020 Death Penalty DISP-AFFIRMED FSC-OPINION: For the foregoing reasons, we decline to review Lawrence's claim that his death sentence is disproportionate and affirm his sentence of death. It is so ordered.
Click to open document 11/13/2020 Death Penalty MOTION-REHEARING AA Jonathan Huey Lawrence 898522 BY: AA Barbara J. Busharis 71780
Click to open document 11/23/2020 Death Penalty RESPONSE AE State Of Florida state1 BY: AE Charmaine M. Millsaps 989134 State's Response to Motion for Rehearing
Click to open document 12/31/2020 Death Penalty DISP-REHEARING DY FSC-OPINION: Appellant's Motion for Rehearing is hereby denied.
Click to open document 01/19/2021 Death Penalty MANDATE
Click to open document 01/19/2021 Death Penalty ORDER-COUNS APPOINTMENT (POST-CONVICTION) Pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851(b), the Office of the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-Northern Region is hereby appointed to handle postconviction proceedings for appellant. The Office of the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-Northern Region shall, within thirty days from this date of this order, file a notice of appearance in the trial court or a motion to withdraw based on a conflict of interest or some other legal ground. A copy of the notice of appearance or motion to withdraw shall be served on the Florida Supreme Court. In accordance with this Court's opinion issued in Amendments to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.851, 3.852, and 3.991 and Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.215, 802 So. 2d 298 (Fla. 2001), the chief judge shall forthwith assign this case to a judge qualified to handle capital cases. A copy of the assignment order shall be served on the Florida Supreme Court.
Click to open document 01/22/2021 Death Penalty PUBLISH FULL Opinion issued October 29, 2020.
Click to open document 01/22/2021 Death Penalty PUBLISH FULL Rehearing order with opinion issued December 31, 2020.
Click to open document 01/22/2021 Death Penalty NOTICE-APPEARANCE Alice B. Copek 25475 BY: Alice B. Copek 25475
Click to open document 01/27/2021 Death Penalty JUDGE-CIRC ASSIGNMENT (3.850) John L. Miller 655910 BY: John L. Miller 655910 Order re: Post-Conviction Proceedings Assignment of Judge
Click to open document 06/24/2021 Death Penalty USSC Not/Cert Filed in FSC The petition for a writ of certiobari in the above entitled case was filed on May 27, 2021 and placed on the docket June 17, 2021 as No. 20-8341.
Click to open document 10/08/2021 Death Penalty USSC Disp-Certiorari Dy The Court today entered the following order in the above-entitled case: The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.