FITZPATRICK v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 65785.

490 So.2d 938 (1986)

Ernest FITZPATRICK, Jr., Petitioner, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard F. Daley, Tallahassee and Michael A. Milleman, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Md., for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Gregory C. Smith and Gary L. Printy, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.


BOYD, Chief Justice.

Ernest Fitzpatrick, Jr., a state prisoner under sentence of death, petitions for habeas corpus and seeks a renewed appeal of his convictions and death sentence on the ground that he was not afforded fully effective assistance of counsel on his previous appeal to this Court.

Petitioner was convicted of first-degree murder and other crimes and was sentenced to death. On appeal, this Court affirmed the convictions and the sentence of death...

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