Case Name: Andrew Richard ALLRED, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2017-11-16
Citations: 230 So. 3d 412
Docket Number: No. SC17-846
Parties: Andrew Richard ALLRED, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: LABARGA,C.J.,.and PARIENTE, • LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, POLSTON, and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 230
Pages: 412–413

Head Matter:
Andrew Richard ALLRED, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. SC17-846
Supreme Court of Florida.
[November 16, 2017]
James V. Viggiano, Jr., Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Mark S.' Gruber, and Julie A, Morley, Assistant Capital Collateral Regional Counsel,- Middle Region, Temple Terrace, Florida, for Appellant
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida; and Vivian Singleton, Assistant Attorney General, ■ Daytona Beach, Florida, for Appellee

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Andrew Richard Allred, a prisoner under sentences of death, appeals the circuit court's order summarily denying his first successive motion for postcohvictiori relief, which was filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851, We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.
In 2008, Allred pleaded -guilty to and was convicted of the first-degree premeditated murders of Michael Ruschak and Tiffany Barwick. Allred subsequently waived his right to a jury in the penalty phase. Following the penalty phase bench trial and a Spencer hearing, the trial court sentenced Allred to death for each of the murders. We affirmed Allred's convictions and sentences of death on direct appeal. Allred v. State, 55 So.3d 1267 (Fla. 2010). We also upheld the denial of his initial motion for po'stconviction relief. Allred v. State, 186 So.3d 530 (Fla. 2016).
In January 2017, Allred filed his current first successive postconviction motion, in which he .raised numerous claims, in light of Hurst v. Florida, — U.S. -, 136 S.Ct. 616, 193 L.Ed.2d 504 (2016), and Hurst v. State, 202 So.3d 40 (Fla. 2016), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 137 S.Ct. 2161, 198 L.Ed.2d 246 (2017). In April 2017, the circuit court entered an order summarily denying Allred's successive postconviction motion. This appeal followed. While All-red's postconviction case was pending in this Court, we directed the parties to-file briefs addressing why the circuit court's order should not be affirmed based on this Court's precedent in Mullens v. State, 197 So.3d 16 (Fla. 2016), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 137 S.Ct. 672, 196 L.Ed.2d 557 (2017).
In Mullens, this Court held that a defendant "capnot subvert the right, to jury factfinding by waiving that right and then suggesting that a subsequent development in the law has fundamentally undermined his sentence." Mullens, 197 So.3d at 40. This Court has consistently relied on Mul-lens to deny Hurst relief to defendants that have waived the right to a penalty phase jury. See, e.g., Dessaure v. State, No. SC17-1075, 230 So.3d 411, 2017 WL 5494384 (slip op. issued Fla. Nov. 16, 2017); Twilegar v. State, No. SC17-839, 228 So.3d 550, 2017 WL 4985519 (Fla. Nov. 2, 2017); Covington v. State, 42 Fla. L. Weekly S787, 2017 WL 3764377, at *14 (Fla. Aug. 31, 2017); Knight v. State, 211 So.3d 1, 5 n.2 (Fla. 2016); Robertson v. State, No. SC16-1297, 2016 WL 7043020, at *1 n.1 (Fla. Dec. 1, 2016); Davis v. State, 207 So.3d 177, 212 (Fla. 2016), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 137 S.Ct. 2218, 198 L.Ed.2d 663 (2017); Brant v. State, 197 So.3d 1051, 1079 (Fla. 2016). Allred is among those defendants who validly waived the right to a penalty phase jury, and his arguments dó not compel departing from our precedent.
Accordingly, we affirm the circuit court's order summarily denying Allred's first successive motion for postconviction relief. - =
It is so ordered.
LABARGA,C.J.,.and PARIENTE, • LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, POLSTON, and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
. Spencer v. State, 615 So.2d 688 (Fla. 1993).