Brucia killer headed toward new sentencing By Jim Saunders | March 2, 2021 at 5:33 PM EST - Updated March 2 at 5:33 PM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (News Service of Florida) - More than 17 years after 11-year-old Carlie Brucia was abducted and murdered in Sarasota County, the attorney generalâs office acknowledged this week that convicted killer Joseph Smith should receive a new sentencing hearing.
In filings Monday at the Florida Supreme Court, the attorney generalâs office said rulings last year by justices in other cases require that Smith and four other convicted murderers be resentenced.
The filing in the Smith case was the latest in a series of legal twists in a 2004 murder that drew national attention. A circuit judge in April 2020 resentenced Smith to death, but the Supreme Court subsequently issued rulings in two other cases that called that sentence into question.
Carlie Brucia s killer to get new sentencing hearing: report
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Brucia Killer Headed Toward New Sentencing
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