Spaziano v. Florida

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Spaziano v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 17, 1984 Decided July 2, 1984
Full case name	Joseph Robert Spaziano v. Florida
Citations	468 U.S. 447 (more) 104 S. Ct. 3154; 82 L. Ed. 2d 340; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 141
Case history
Prior	Spaziano v. State, 393 So. 2d 1119 (Fla. 1981); Spaziano v. Florida, 454 U.S. 1037 (1981); on remand, Spaziano v. State, 433 So. 2d 508 (1983)
Holding
It was not error for the trial judge to refuse to instruct the jury on lesser included offenses.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Powell, O'Connor; White, Rehnquist (all but a portion of Part II); Brennan, Marshall, Stevens (Part II only)
Concurrence	White, joined by Rehnquist
Concur/dissent	Stevens, joined by Brennan, Marshall
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. VI, VIII
Overruled by
Hurst v. Florida (2016)

Spaziano v. Florida was two United States Supreme Court cases dealing with the imposition of the death penalty. In the first case, 454 U.S. 1037 (1981),^[1] the Supreme Court, with two dissents, refused Spaziano's petition for certiorari. However, the Florida Supreme Court would reverse Spaziano's death sentence based on the judge's receipt of a confidential report which was not received by either party. On remand, the judge reimposed the death penalty and the Florida Supreme Court upheld the sentence.^[2] In the second case, 468 U.S. 447 (1984),^[3] the Court heard Spaziano's appeal of his death sentence.