Supreme Court of Florida

Postconviction court's order denying defendant's motion to vacate a judgment of conviction of first degree murder and a sentence of death is affirmed where: 1) defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim is meritless; and 2) defendant's claim of newly discovered evidence was properly denied as he failed to raise the claim, that another individual confessed to being the shooter in the murder for which defendant was convicted, within one year of discovering it and failed to raise the claim in his pleadings at all.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2010
• Published 04/29/2010

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harry P. Brody of H. Brody, P.A., Sarasota, FL, for Appellant.


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