Overview
- Jury selection started Monday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court for the resentencing of Harrel Braddy, 76.
- Florida’s 2023 law allows a death recommendation with an 8–4 jury vote, and a U.S. Supreme Court review of that rule has not been taken up.
- Braddy was convicted in 2007 of murdering 5-year-old Quatisha Maycock in 1998 and of attempting to murder her mother after abducting them.
- Prosecutors say he left the child alive near Alligator Alley; medical testimony said she suffered alligator bites while alive and died from blunt force head trauma.
- The proceeding is part of a wave of resentencings in Miami-Dade, where juries recently spared Labrant Dennis and returned Rafael Andres to death row.