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As courts across Florida have scrambled this year to figure out how to apply a new death-penalty law, the resentencing of two men convicted in a notorious Volusia County case known as the “Xbox murders” added to the questions.
On Tuesday, a judge declared a mistrial in the resentencing of two people convicted of murder in Deltona.
The State Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday filed an emergency motion to delay the resentencing trials of two defendants in the Deltona “Xbox Murders” case.
The re-sentencing trial for two men convicted in the 2004 murders of six people in Florida – known as the Deltona ‘Xbox murders" – was put on hold Thursday morning after an appeals court judge granted the state's motion to halt the trial.
Prosecutors want the court to overturn the judge's decision not to allow prosecutors to rely on Florida’s new death penalty law.