KENNEDY v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 68264.

483 So.2d 424 (1986)

Edward KENNEDY, Petitioner, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, and R.C. Dugger, Superintendent of Florida State Prison, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Helm Spalding, Capital Collateral Representative, Michael A. Mello, Asst. Capital Collateral Representative and David Adam Reiser, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Gary L. Printy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondents.


BOYD, Chief Justice.

Edward Kennedy, a state prisoner under sentence of death, petitions for a writ of habeas corpus. He claims that his capital convictions and sentences of death were unconstitutionally obtained and that he received ineffective assistance of counsel on appeal. He seeks a stay of the scheduled execution of death sentence. We deny the motion for stay and deny the petition for writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner was convicted of two counts of...

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