Supreme Court of Florida

Denial of defendant's motion to vacate his 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) ineffective assistance of counsel; 2) prosecutorial misconduct; 3) newly discovered evidence; 4) cumulative error; 5) the constitutionality of Florida's death sentencing statute; and 6) his incompetency at the time of execution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/18/2007
• Published 01/18/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John W. Jennings, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-Middle Region, Richard E. Kiley and James V. Viggiano, Jr., Assistant CCR Counsel-Middle Region, Tampa, FL, for Appellant/Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, and Stephen D. Ake, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Appellee/Respondent.