HAMWI v. STATE

No. 4D01-2140.

805 So.2d 101 (2002)

Paul Roberts HAMWI, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 23, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot H. Scherker of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, Alan M. Dershowitz, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Nathan Z. Dershowitz and Amy Adelson of Dershowitz Eiger & Adelson, P.C., New York, NY, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina-Jimenez Orosa, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Paul Roberts Hamwi appeals the summary denial of his post-conviction motion. We find that an evidentiary hearing is required on Hamwi's allegation that the state suppressed favorable evidence.

Hamwi and his co-defendant Paul Serio were convicted of the first degree murder of Hamwi's former wife. The confessed killer, Robert Beckett, Sr., testified under a grant of immunity that Hamwi hired him to commit the murder and that Serio assisted. Neither...

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