27 March 2017 :

Orange County Judge Bob LeBlanc (Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida) vacated the death sentence of David Frances because he was sentenced to death in 2005 without a unanimous jury decision. Frances, now 36, Black, and his younger brother, Elvis Frances, were convicted of strangling 41-year-old Helena Mills and her 17-year-old niece, Jo Anna Charles, in Mills' home in 2000. Frances was sentenced to death by a vote of 9-3 on one count and 10-2 on the other. His brother, who was 16 at the time of the murders, was sentenced to life in prison.