Hurst v. Florida

Hurst v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 13, 2015 Decided January 12, 2016
Full case name	Timothy Lee Hurst, Petitioner v. Florida
Docket no.	14-7505
Citations	577 U.S. 92 (more) 136 S. Ct. 616; 193 L. Ed. 2d 504
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Hurst v. State, 147 So. 3d 435 (Fla. 2014); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 1531 (2015).
Holding
Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment in light of Ring v. Arizona.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Kagan
Concurrence	Breyer (in judgment)
Dissent	Alito
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VI
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings
Spaziano v. Florida (1984), Hildwin v. Florida (1989)

Hurst v. Florida, 577 U.S. 92 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court, in an 8–1 ruling, applied the rule of Ring v. Arizona^[1] to the Florida capital sentencing scheme, holding that the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find the aggravating factors necessary for imposing the death penalty. In Florida, under a 2013 statute, the jury made recommendations but the judge decided the facts.