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    David James Martin - Florida


    Jacey Lynn McWilliams




    Facts of the Crime:

    Martin was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in the 2008 killing of Jacey McWilliams, 24. Prosecutors said Martin beat McWilliams with a hammer in order to steal her car so he could go see his girlfriend. A detective who testified during the trial said Martin’s cell phone was found near McWilliams’ body, which was discovered near Jennings State Forest in Middleburg.

    Martin was sentenced to death in Clay County on March 3, 2010.

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    December 4, 2009

    Jurors recommend death for convicted killer

    GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Sentencing is set for Jan. 8 for a Clay County man convicted of murder and who jurors later recommended should be put to death.

    A Clay County jury on Thursday, Dec. 3, voted 9-3 to recommend that David James Martin receive the death penalty. An appeal is mandatory in all death penalty convictions.

    Martin, 23, was found guilty last month of first-degree murder in the 2008 killing of Jacey McWilliams, 24. Prosecutors said Martin beat McWilliams with a hammer in order to steal her car so he could go see his girlfriend.

    A detective who testified during the trial said Martin’s cell phone was found near McWilliams’ body, which was discovered near Jennings State Forest in Middleburg.

    Sentencing will be before Circuit Judge William A. Wilkes.

    http://www.claytoday.biz/content/1791_1.php

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    Oral arguments were held on November 2nd.

    http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/p.../oa11-11.shtml

    You can find the briefs here: http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/p...539/index.html

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    DAVID JAMES MARTIN v THE STATE OF FLORIDA

    In today's opinions, the Florida Supreme Court AFFIRMED Martin's conviction and sentence of death.
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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Martin's petition for a writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Florida
    Case Nos.: (SC10-539)
    Decision Date: September 20, 2012
    Rehearing Denied: February 1, 2013

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    Two Clay County murderers to receive resentencing hearings under new death penalty system

    By Jesse Hollett
    Clay Today Online

    Another Clay County murder case that will get a resentencing hearing in the wake of the Hurst decision is that of David James Martin of Jacksonville, who was convicted in the 2008. Martin was convicted of bludgeoning Jacey McWilliams, 24, and dumping her body in a wooded area near Middleburg. He was given the death penalty after a jury voted 10-2 and not unanimously.

    Criminal justice experts say that of the 395 prisoners currently on Florida’s death row, nearly 150 of them qualify for resentencing hearings under Hurst.

    Of those, 35 of them are within the Fourth Judicial Circuit, which is made up of Clay, Duval and Nassau counties.

    “I’ll use one word – chaos,” said retired Supreme Court Justice Gerald Kogan of Miami in describing what the aftershock of the Hurst ruling in Florida. “It’s just a mess.”

    Prosecutors, some of whom argued these cases years prior, will resentence the cases with a new jury while maintaining their normal caseload.

    Each of these cases must be reinvestigated and presented in full by both the prosecution and the defense.

    Because these cases will receive new penalty phases exclusively, jurors will not decide on guilt, rather jurors will decide on the punishment.

    The state recognizes a life sentence if even one juror votes no to capital punishment.

    Fourth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Melissa Nelson said she has already heard new mitigating factors and evidence from defense attorneys arguing older cases while the state goes through the process of identifying which cases they will again seek capital punishment on, and which and they will commute to life sentences.

    The Hurst ruling may also effect current proceedings. In late April 2016, the State of Florida filed a notice to seek the death penalty in the case of Bobbi Lee White and her husband Joseph Lloyd White for the alleged murder of a Jacksonville man whose remains investigators found inside a torched van in Jennings State Forest.

    Last July, Bobbi’s attorney filed a motion to block the state from pursuing the death penalty due to the change in death penalty guidelines.

    Joseph’s public defender has yet to file any such motion.

    While the State Attorney’s Office has not yet identified even a cursory price attached to these coming proceedings, Nelson said the figure will be significant.

    “Each [case] will be slightly different...but I think after we go through one, we will have a high figure associated with the cost of resentencing,” Nelson said.

    While taxpayers might pay the price for the Hurst ruling, Nelson said survivors and loved ones of the dead will pay the true cost.

    “We are calling them sometimes 30 – in one case 40 years – in many cases 20 years after the fact, and explaining what this new law means and walking them through the process,” Nelson said. “They deserve, and obviously the community deserves, for us to make timely decisions – but certainly the next of kin do.”

    The State Attorney’s Office will complete preliminary decisions on which Hurst-qualified cases they will seek the death penalty on by Saturday.

    http://www.claytodayonline.com/stori...ty-system,7709
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    The Florida Supreme Court has denied Martin's appeal and all claims in said appeal.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/florida.../sc18-896.html
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    David has trooned out, he's now claiming to be a "transgender woman " named Jasmine.

    https://writeaprisoner.com/inmates/d...-j30258/penpal
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