Tuesday’s proceeding, called a Spencer hearing, was the final opportunity for supporters of Eriese Tisdale, 37, and members of Morales' family to try to convince Circuit Judge Lawrence Mirman ...

On Monday, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Mirman sentenced Eriese Tisdale to death in the 2013 murder of a St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office deputy.

This was Eriese Tisdale's last chance to convince a judge to keep him off death row. Tisdale shot and killed Sgt. Gary Morales after a traffic stop on Feb. 28, 2013.

St. Lucie County Sheriff Sgt. Gary Morales was shot, killed by Eriese Tisdale during a 2013 traffic stop. There are 276 Florida inmates on death row.

Convicted felon Eriese Tisdale, 37, listens in on the proceedings during a Spencer hearing with Circuit Judge Lawrence Mirman on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, at the St. Lucie County Courthouse in Fort ...

Eriese Tisdale looks toward a panel of prospective jurors in Circuit Judge Lawrence Mirman’s courtroom, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, at the St. Lucie County Courthouse.

The sheriff's office said the jury voted 9-3 for Eriese Tisdale to be put to death. According to previous reports, Tisdale killed St. Lucie County deputy Sgt. Gary Morales in February of 2013.

As Eriese Tisdale, 37, convicted of killing St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Sgt. Gary Morales in 2013, enters court Tuesday Sept. 4, 2024, he’s greeted by Amy Perron, on far left, a private ...

Two years after death row inmate Eriese Tisdale won a new sentencing hearing for murdering St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Sgt. Gary Morales in 2013, prosecutors hope to stop the penalty phase do ...

Eriese Tisdale, turns to look at his mother Charmaine Tisdale, as the jury is questioned on their 9-3 vote recommending he be put to death for the murder of St. Lucie County Sheriff Sgt. Gary ...

FORT PIERCE — If convicted cop killer Eriese Tisdale undergoes a resentencing for gunning down St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Sgt. Gary Morales in 2013, it won’t happen until well into next year ...