Supreme Court of Florida
Bell v. State of Florida, SC02-1765
Denial of defendant's motion to vacate his two convictions of first-degree murder and two sentences of death and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus is affirmed and denied, respectively, over procedurally barred claims and claims that: 1) trial counsel was ineffective for numerous reasons; 2) there was cumulative error; 3) appellate counsel was ineffective for various reasons; 4) petitioner's death sentence is unconstitutional under Apprendi; and 5) the trial court gave unconstitutional jury instructions.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/07/2007
- Published 06/07/2007
Judges
- PER CURIAM.
Court
- Supreme Court of Florida
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Christopher J. Anderson, Atlantic Beach, FL, for Appellant/Petitioner.
- For Appellees:
- Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Meredith Charbula, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Appellee/Respondent.