3dbbae6a_rt_decisions___Tampa_Bay_Times__Impact_on_merit_retention
[Case name and date] Scott vs. State, 6/30/11 [Case summary] Kevin Jerome Scott was sentenced to death for shooting and killing laundromat owner Kristo Binjaku during an attempted armed robbery. In that same attack, Scott also hit a witness on the head with the butt of a gun, although that information didn't come out until later. Scott appealed his first degree murder conviction and death penalty. [Ruling] 7-0 [What majority said] The court ruled that Scott's death penalty was unjust based on the facts of his case and ordered the trial court to instead impose a life sentence without possibility of parole. Specifically, they said the nature of how the shooting occurred wasn't to the level of warranting a death sentence. Justices also argued that Scott didn't have past violence in his record and instead the assault of the witness during the attack was used to justify the death penalty. [Impact on merit retention] 
People who are hoping to get these justices removed from court have used this case as an example of judicial activism because a death penalty conviction was overturned.
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Impact on merit retention