Pinellas County: Reynaldo Figueroa-Sanabria resentenced to death
After the Supreme Court of Florida remanded his case for new penalty phase in 2023, the trial court resentenced Figueroa-Sanabria to death on both counts of first-degree murder.
In 2019, Reynaldo Figueroa-Sanabria was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death on each count following the jury’s unanimous recommendation for death.
On direct appeal, in a 2023 opinion written by Justice Couriel, the Supreme Court of Florida affirmed his sentences of death but vacated the sentences of death and remanded for a new penalty phase, finding that Figueroa-Sanabria “was deprived of his right to ‘have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence’ when the trial court put him to an improper choice at the outset of [the penalty] phase of the proceedings.”1
On remand, Figueroa-Sanabria waived his right to penalty phase jury and was sentenced by the trial court. On May 13, the trial court resentenced Figueroa-Sanabria to death on both counts.
Figueroa-Sanabria has filed his direct appeal from his new sentences with the Supreme Court of Florida (No. SC2024-0768).
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Figueroa-Sanabria v. State, 366 So. 3d 1035, 1041 (Fla. 2023).