Supreme Court of Florida

Denial of a petition to vacate petitioner's first-degree murder conviction and sentence of death, and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, are affirmed and denied, respectively, over claims of error that: 1) trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance; 2) the circuit court erred in denying a claim of newly discovered evidence warranting a new penalty phase; 3) the trial court erred in denying petitioner's public records requests; 4) the trial court erred in summarily denying several of his postconviction claims; 5) appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise two meritorious claims; and 6) both his death sentence and lethal injection are unconstitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2007
• Published 08/30/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Neal A. Dupree, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Paul Kalil and Christina L. Spudeas, Assistant CCRC-South, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Appellant/Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, and Leslie T. Campbell, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, FL, for Appellee/Respondent.