FUNCHESS v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 68412.

486 So.2d 592 (1986)

David Livingston FUNCHESS, Petitioner, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Etc., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew A. Graham of Reinman, Harrell, Silberhorn, Moule & Graham, Melbourne, and Larry Helm Spalding, Capital Collateral Representative, Mark E. Olive, Litigation Director and Michael A. Mello, Asst. Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Richard E. Doran, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, for respondents.


ADKINS, Justice.

David Livingston Funchess petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus and requests a stay of execution. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(9), Fla. Const. We deny the petition for a writ of habeas corpus and the application for stay of execution.

In 1975, Funchess was convicted of two counts of murder in the first degree and sentenced to two consecutive sentences of death. We affirmed both convictions and sentence. Funchess...

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