Allen Ward Cox v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC2022-1553 ____________ ALLEN WARD COX, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee/Cross-Appellant. July 11, 2024 SASSO, J. Allen Ward Cox appeals a sentence of death imposed during a resentencing that this Court ordered as a result of Hurst error. 1 For the reasons that follow, we affirm. I. Cox, then an inmate in Lake Correctional Institute (“LCI”), was indicted in 1999 for the premeditated murder of fellow inmate Thomas Baker. The charges against Cox resulted from a chain of events within LCI that culminated in the death of Baker and…