Supreme Court of Florida

Denial of a postconviction motion to vacate defendant's conviction of first-degree murder and sentence of death and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus are affirmed and denied, respectively, over claims of error regarding: 1) defendant's competency to proceed with postconviction proceedings; 2) ineffective assistance of counsel claims; 3) the adequacy of a mental health examination; 4) Brady claims; 5) his competency at the time of trial; 6) a Ring claim; 7) his right to confrontation; 8) prosecutorial misconduct; and 9) jury instructions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2007
• Published 01/11/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Neal A. Dupree, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-Southern Region, Tiffany Murphy and Linda M. McDermott, Special Assistant CCR Counsel, and Andrea Harrington, Assistant CCR Counsel-Southern Region, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Appellant/Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, and Scott A. Browne, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Appellee/Respondent.