Jacksonville, FL
Criminal defense Lawyer at Jacksonville, FL
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Appeals
OUTCOME: Reversed and remanded for new trial
Reversed for new trial as Special Master was responsible for assuring that a written record is produced and this requirement is not discretionary. In this case the Special Master's report failed to com ... ply with the legal requirements, therefore, the proceedings must be reversed.
OUTCOME: Certificate of Appealability granted
Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability was granted with respect to issue of whether Florida Supreme Court, in deciding that the Miami Dade detectives did not deny appellant his Fifth or Sixth Amendm ... ent right to counsle while questioning him in absence of counsel, rendered a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of clearly established fedearl law, or...was based on a unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence.
OUTCOME: 3.850 granted in part, denied in part.
5 years cut from 25 year sentence (information did not include language of “great bodily harm,” and therefore maximum sentence D could have received was 20 years, not 25
OUTCOME: Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded
OUTCOME: Illegal Sentence motion granted
Illegal Sentence motion granted, sentence reversed and new sentencing hearing granted.
OUTCOME: Death penalty vacated
The failures of trial counsel regarding the lack of investigation into mitigation and the failure to object to even one of the clearly improper remarks left the state's case virtually untested. Death p ... enalty reversed and remanded for new penalty phase hearing.
OUTCOME: Affirmed in part and Reversed in part.
Death penalty 3.850 case. Trial court upheld conviction and sentence, but vacated death sentence, ordering a new penalty phase.
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