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This week’s email edition is out. Leading off this edition are three opinions from the Florida Supreme Court. In Maas v. Olive the court examines the Florida postconviction compensation scheme, its purported caps, and finds it wanting. In Jerry Michael Wickham v. State a remand is ordered as “the postconviction court erred by denying Wickham’s motion to disqualify the postconviction judge.” Finally, in Anthony Welch v. State a new penalty phase is ordered where the trial court failed to ask “the State for a gender-neutral ground when Welch timely objected to the State’s peremptory challenge to a female juror.” The Supreme Court’s term begins this Monday.  Keeping with tradition, the Court granted cert this past week in a handful of criminal cases, including one capital, Montejo v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on October 05, 2008 (boomark / email).