WADE POUNDS
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA
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Postconviction review of a sentence based on Erlinger is improper because Erlinger was a direct-appeal case involving required jury findings, not a postconviction case, and any new constitutional procedural rules do not apply retroactively to cases already final on direct review.
[1] A new constitutional procedural rule announced in a direct-appeal case does not apply retroactively to cases already final on direct review, and postconviction review bas…
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence“Erlinger was a direct-appeal case—not a postconviction case like Ford's—and it involved required jury findings regarding an element. Based on these fundamental distinctions, it is clear that Erlinger provides no support for vacating Ford's death sentences.”
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Wade Pounds appealed from a circuit court judgment in Miami-Dade County. The appeal involved a challenge to sentencing based on alleged changes in law…
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Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida
Opinion filed August 6, 2025. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D25-0069 Lower Tribunal No. F06-24000B ________________
Wade Pounds, Appellant,
vs.
The State of Florida, Appellee.
An Appeal under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(b)(2) from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jason Edward Bloch, Judge.
Wade Pounds, in proper person.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and David Llanes, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before EMAS, FERNANDEZ, and MILLER, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
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Affirmed. See Ford v. State, 402 So. 3d 973, 981 (Fla. 2025) (“Erlinger was a direct-appeal case—not a postconviction case like Ford’s—and it involved required jury findings regarding an element. Based on these fundamental distinctions, it is clear that Erlinger provides no support for vacating Ford’s death sentences.”); Tanzi v. State, 407 So. 3d 385, 394–95 (Fla. 2025) (finding postconviction review of defendant’s sentence based on Erlinger was improper); Wainwright v. State, No. SC2025-0708, 2025 WL 1561151, at *5 (Fla. June3, 2025) (“We reject Wainwright’s argument because even if Erlinger constitutes a change of law, it does not apply retroactively.”), cert. denied sub nom. Wainwright v. Florida, No. 24-7365, 2025 WL 1621505 (U.S. June 9, 2025); Figarola v. State, 841 So. 2d 576, 577 n.3 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003) (citation omitted) (“Apprendi was characterized as a procedural rule by the Supreme Court. Since announcing Teague, the Supreme Court has not given retroactive effect to any decisions announcing new constitutional rules of criminal procedure.”); Harris v. United States, 536 U.S. 545, 581 (2002) (Thomas, J., dissenting) (“No Court of Appeals, let alone [the Supreme Court], has held that Apprendi has retroactive effect.”); Schriro v. Summerlin, 542 U.S. 348, 358 (2004) (“Ring announced a new procedural rule that does not apply retroactively to cases already final on direct review.”); Witt v. State, 387 So. 2d 922, 926 (Fla. 1980) (“[T]he
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