Stanley Dickerson v. State

Presently pending before this court is Stanley Dickerson’s most recent petition for writ of habeas corpus. . Dickerson asserts that during the course of his 2008 trial, in which he was convicted of second-degree murder, the trial court instructed the jury on the elements necessary to prove the lesser included offense of manslaughter, utilizing, without objection, the then-standard manslaughter by intentional act jury instruction. He notes that the Florida Supreme Court later determined in State v. Montgomery, 39 So.3d 252 (Fla.2010), that the subject jury instruction was not only incorrect…