Supreme Court of Florida

Denial of postconviction relief from a capital conviction of first-degree murder and sentence of death is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) criminal appellant's sixteen claims on direct appeal of his convictions and sentence of death were without merit, not properly preserved for appellate review, or harmless beyond a reasonable doubt; and 2) counsel failed to fully investigate and present mitigating evidence regarding appellant's childhood and mental health.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2009
• Published 01/22/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Neal A. Dupree, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Suzanne Keffer, Assistant CCR Counsel, and Barbara L. Costa, CCRC Staff Attorney, Southern Region, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Appellant.


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