Parker v. State

J.B. Parker was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of Frances Slater. This Court affirmed Parker’s convictions and sentence of death on direct appeal. Parker v. State (Parker I), 476 So.2d 134, 140 (Fla.1985). In 1998, Parker was granted a new penalty phase due to the State’s suppression of exculpatory evidence that suggested a codefendant, and not Parker, shot the victim. State v. Parker (Parker V), 721 So.2d 1147, 1147, 1149-50 (Fla.1998). After the new penalty-phase proceeding, Parker was again sentenced to death, and this Court affirmed his sentence on direct appeal.…