District Court of Appeal of Florida

Order denying defendant's motion for postconviction relief from a capital sexual battery conviction is reversed as to a portion of the order denying relief on a complex legal ground where the district court abused its discretion in refusing defendant's request for appointment of counsel for the evidentiary hearing on his motion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/28/2005
• Published 12/28/2005

Judges

• ALTENBERND, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John E. Swisher, St. Petersburg, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Susan M. Shanahan, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.