Supreme Court of Florida

Denial of a motion to vacate a conviction for first degree murder and sentence of death is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to present additional mitigating testimony and failing to obtain a mental health expert; 2) error in denial of a claim that the state knowingly presented false testimony at trial; and 3) whether post-conviction counsel failed to adequately investigate the case and obtain a medical expert.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2008
• Published 05/22/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harry P. Brody and Jeffrey M. Hazen of Brody and Hazen, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Meredith Charbula, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Appellee.