LIGHTNER v. STATE

No. 3D19-1681.

306 So.3d 1083 (2020)

Yancy LIGHTNER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Opinion filed August 12, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Richard Rosenbaum, and Richard L. Rosenbaum (Fort Lauderdale), for appellant.

Ashley Moody , Attorney General, and Sandra Lipman , Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before EMAS, C.J., and SCALES and HENDON, JJ.


Yancy Lightner appeals from the trial court's order, rendered after an evidentiary hearing, denying his successive 3.850 petition for postconviction relief based on newly discovered evidence and manifest injustice or, in the alternative, petition for writ of habeas corpus based on newly discovered evidence and manifest injustice. We affirm...

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