Supreme Court of Florida

In conviction for first-degree murder and sentence of death, denial of post-conviction relief is affirmed over claims of error that: 1) criminal-appellant was denied a reliable adversarial testing at the guilt and resentencing phases of his trial in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and the trial court erred in summarily denying various issues attendant to this claim; and 2) criminal-appellant was denied a reliable adversarial testing at his resentencing in violation of the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and the trial court erred in summarily denying this claim without an evidentiary hearing.

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• Decided 02/19/2009
• Published 02/19/2009

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• Supreme Court of Florida

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