GOODWIN v. STATE

No. 4D09-1425.

91 So.3d 182 (2012)

Leroy GOODWIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied July 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos F. Gonzalez of Diaz Reus & Targ, LLP, Miami, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Leroy Goodwin appeals a circuit court order which denied his post-conviction motion for DNA testing and motion for discovery after an evidentiary hearing. Because competent, substantial evidence supported the trial court's finding that the DNA evidence Goodwin sought no longer existed, we affirm.

Goodwin was convicted of sexual battery in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison with a twenty-five year mandatory minimum. Almost twenty years later,...

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