Supreme Court of Florida

Denial of criminal-appellant's successive postconviction motion for conviction of first-degree murder and sentence of death and petition for writ habeas corpus are affirmed over claims of error that: 1) State of Florida violated Brady v. Maryland by failing to disclose evidence disposition forms which indicated that in 1966 and 1967, certain evidence was transported from the Florida Sheriff's Bureau Crime Laboratory in Tallahassee back to the submitting agency after laboratory examination; and 2) a manifest injustice occurred because evidence was destroyed prior to appellant's trial.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sylvia H. Walbolt, Kevin J. Napper, Joseph H. Lang, Jr., and Leslie Schultz-Kin of Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Appellant/Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, and Carol M. Dittmar, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Appellee/Respondent.