Reynolds v. Florida

Issues: (1) Whether the Florida Supreme Court’s plurality decision rejecting the petitioner’s Caldwell v. Mississippi claim is error when the jury was affirmatively misled regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sense of responsibility; and (2) whether the Florida Supreme Court’s per se harmless-error rule for violations of Hurst v. Florida—which deems errors harmless in every case in which the capital defendant’s pre-Hurst advisory jury, after being instructed that the findings of fact and sentencing decision would be made by the judge alone, unanimously recommended the death penalty—contravenes the Eighth Amendment under Caldwell v. Mississippi.