TAFERO v. DUGGER

No. 71946.

520 So.2d 287 (1988)

Jesse Joseph TAFERO, Petitioner, v. Richard L. DUGGER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 26, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Rogow, Nova University Law Center, Ft. Lauderdale, and Larry Helm Spalding, Capital Collateral Representative and Mark Evan Olive, Chief Asst., Capital Collateral Representative, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Joy B. Shearer and Richard G. Bartmon, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.


McDONALD, Chief Justice.

The governor recently signed Tafero's second death warrant, following which Tafero filed the instant petition for writ of habeas corpus. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(9), Fla. Const. We deny both the petition and the request for stay of execution.

Tafero has a lengthy history in the courts. After a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder, among other things, the trial court sentenced Tafero to death, and this Court...

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