Supreme Court of Florida

Denial of a motion for postconviction relief and a petition for habeas relief from a conviction and death sentence for first-degree murder are affirmed and denied, respectively, over claims of error regarding: 1) ineffective assistance of counsel; 2) summary denial of defendant's postconviction claims; 3) an avoiding arrest aggravator; 4) the applicability of a heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator; 5) a claim of being innocent of the death penalty; 6) the constitutionality of Florida's death penalty statute; 7) cumulative error; and 8) fundamental error due to his conviction of a crime not charged in the indictment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2006
• Published 08/31/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Neal A. Dupree, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, and Suzanne Myers Keffer, Assistant CCRC-South, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Appellant/Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, and Katherine V. Blanco, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Appellee/Respondent.