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MUHAMMAD v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA CORRECTIONS DEPT.

No. 14-10024.

739 F.3d 683 (2014)

Askari Abdullah MUHAMMAD, f.k.a. Thomas Knight, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Warden, Florida State Prison, Attorney General, State of Florida, Does 1-50 in their official capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 7, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Mcdermott , Mcclain & Mcdermott, PA, Wilton Manors, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sandra Jaggard , Attorney General's Office, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before MARCUS, WILSON, and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

Askari Muhammad murdered a prison guard, Richard James Burke, by stabbing him more than a dozen times with a knife made from a sharpened serving spoon, and a Florida trial court convicted Muhammad of first-degree murder and sentenced him to death. When he murdered Burke, Muhammad was already serving a death sentence for his separate murders of a Miami couple. State and federal courts have affirmed his death sentence on direct and collateral review...

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