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    Kayle Barrington Bates - Florida Death Row




    Summary of Offense:

    Kayle Bates, kidnapped and attempted to rape the victim before he stabbed her to death and robbed her. On the afternoon of June 14, 1982, Bates abducted the victim, 24-year-old Janet Renee White, from her office, took her into a wooded area behind the building, attempted to rape her, stabbed her to death and removed a diamond ring from one of her fingers.

    Bates was sentenced to death in Bay County on March 11, 1983.

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    Factors Contributing to the Delay in the Imposition of the Sentence:

    The primary causes of delay in this case are two resentencings in 1985 and 1995. Additionally, Bates’ third direct appeal, filed in 1995, was with the Florida Supreme Court for more than four years before its disposition in 1999. Also, the 3.850 Motion was pending from 09/07/01 – 03/01/07.

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    Bates filed his first direct appeal with the Florida Supreme Court in 1983. The court in 1985 vacated the death sentence and remanded to the trial court for a reweighing of the aggravating circumstances against the mitigating evidence.

    The trial court resentenced Bates to death in 1985. On direct appeal the Florida Supreme Court in 1987 affirmed the sentence. The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari the same year.

    Governor Martinez in September 1989 signed a death warrant on Bates. The defendant responded by filing a 3.850 motion with the trial court the following month and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the Florida Supreme Court in November 1989. The trial court stayed the execution, and in its 1990 opinion held that Bates' counsel had been ineffective during the original sentencing proceeding. The court vacated the sentence and remanded for a new sentencing hearing. The State appealed the ruling to the Florida Supreme Court and Bates filed a cross-appeal. The Supreme Court in a consolidated 1992 opinion denied habeas and in affirming the trial court’s ruling, remanded for resentencing. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 denied certiorari.

    In 1995, the trial court resentenced Bates to death. Bates filed a direct appeal to the Florida Supreme Court in 1995. The court in 1999 affirmed the sentence. The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in 2000.

    In 2001, Bates filed a 3.850 Motion in the trial court that was denied on 03/01/07.

    In 2007, Bates filed a 3.850 Motion Appeal in the Florida Supreme Court that was denied on 01/30/09.

    On 01/22/08, Bates filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in the Florida Supreme Court that was denied on 01/30/09.

    On 03/16/09, Bates filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in the United States District Court. This petition is pending.

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    On April 26, 2013, Bates filed an appeal before the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals over the apparent denial of his habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...ca11/13-11882/

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    On September 5, 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit AFFIRMED the Federal District Court's denial of Bates' habeas petition.

    http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/...014-09-05.html

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    On December 16, 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit DENIED Bates' petition for en banc rehearing.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es\14-9864.htm

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Bates' petition for certiorari.

    Docketed: February 25, 2015
    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    Case Nos.: (13-11882)

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-9864.htm

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    In today's opinions, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court's denial of Bates' successive motion for postconviction DNA testing.

    http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/d.../sc16-1178.pdf
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    Florida Supreme Court rejects 10 Death Row appeals, including in Duval and Clay

    By News Service of Florida
    Florida Times-Union

    The Florida Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by 10 Death Row inmates, including three in Duval County and one in Clay County.

    The Supreme Court’s release of 10 nearly identical rulings at the same time was a somewhat-unusual move. But each of the cases involved inmates challenging their death sentences because juries did not unanimously recommend execution.

    The appeals were rooted in a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case known as Hurst v. Florida and a subsequent Florida Supreme Court decision. The 2016 ruling found Florida’s death-penalty sentencing system was unconstitutional because it gave too much authority to judges, instead of juries. The subsequent Florida Supreme Court ruling said juries must unanimously agree on critical findings before judges can impose death sentences and must unanimously recommend the death penalty.

    But the Florida Supreme Court made the new sentencing requirements apply to cases since 2002. That is when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling known as Ring v. Arizona that was a premise for striking down Florida’s death-penalty sentencing system in 2016.

    In each of the cases Monday, the Death Row inmates had been sentenced to death before the Ring decision and argued that the jury-unanimity requirements should also apply to their cases.

    The Jacksonville cases were Marvin Burnett Jones, Pressley Bernard Alston and Jason Demetrius Stephens. In Clay County, Donald Bradley’s appeal was denied.

    The others were Eric Scott Branch in Escambia County, Kayle Barrington Bates in Bay County, Daniel Jon Peterka in Okaloosa County, Harry Franklin Phillips in Miami-Dade County, Ernest D. Suggs in Walton County and Frank A. Walls in Okaloosa County.

    http://jacksonville.com/news/public-...ding-duval-and
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