District Court of Appeal of Florida

A first-degree murder conviction and life sentence is affirmed over waived or meritless claims of error regarding: 1) denial of a request to strike the jury panel; 2) introduction of the victim-s dying declaration; 3) prosecutorial misconduct; 4) admission of evidence that defendant had just returned home from prison; and 5) defendant's speedy trial right.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2006
• Published 08/09/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Glenna Joyce Reeves, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Sheron Wells, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.