Supreme Court of Florida

Denial of a motion to vacate a conviction for first-degree murder and death sentence, as well as a petition for habeas relief, are affirmed and denied, respectively, over claims of error regarding: 1) ineffective assistance of counsel; 2) whether procedural and substantive errors deprived him of a fundamentally fair trial; 3) the constitutionality of Florida's death penalty statute; 4) cumulative error; 5) jury instructions; 6) defendant's competency to be executed; and 7) whether execution by lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/20/2008
• Published 03/20/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Jennings, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Robert T. Strain and David Robert Gemmer, Assistant CCRC, Middle Region, Tampa, FL, for Appellant/Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, and Kenneth S. Nunnelley, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, FL, for Appellee/Respondent.