LOFTON

v.

JOHNSON, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION

Citator

Cited By

• Bradley v. State, 787 So. 2d 732 (Fla. 2001)
  …rbin v. State, 714 So. 2d 411, 416-17 (Fla.1998). Proportionality review, however, is more than a mere quantitative comparison between the number of aggravating and mitigating circumstances. See Bates v. State, 750 So. 2d 6 (Fla.1999), cert. denied, 531 U.S. 835, 121 S.Ct. 93, 148 L.Ed.2d 53 (2000). Rather, it is a review of the totality of all the circumstances in a case as compared to other cases in which the death penalty had been imposed. See Robinson v. State, 761 So. 2d 269 (Fla.1999), cert. denied, 5…
• Kayle B. Bates v. State of Fla. & Kayle B. Bates v. Sec'y, 416 So. 3d 312 (Fla. 2025)
  …g. Bates v. State (Bates V), 3 So. 3d 1091, 1098-1106 (Fla. 2009). We affirmed the circuit court’s order denying his claims and his DNA-related request. Id. at 1105-06. We also denied Bates’ habeas corpus petition. Id. at 1107. 2. Bates v. Florida, 531 U.S. 835 (2000). Bates then turned to the federal courts, asking for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. But the District Court for the Northern District of Florida denied relief, and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. Bates v. Sec’y, Fla.…
• Kayle Barrington Bates v. State, 238 So. 3d 98 (Fla. 2018)
  …Bates is not entitled to relief. Bates was sentenced to death following a jury's recommendation for death by a vote of nine to [*99] three. Bates v. State, 750 So. 2d 6, 9 (Fla. 1999). Bates' sentence of death became final in 2000. Bates v. Florida, 531 U.S. 835, 121 S.Ct. 93, 148 L.Ed.2d 53 (2000). Thus, Hurst does not apply retroactively to Bates' sentence of death. See Hitchcock, 226 So. 3d at 217. Accordingly, we affirm the denial of Bates' motion and deny his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The…