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Tampa killer loses death row appeal

Tampa killer loses death row appeal By Colleen Jenkins, Times staff writerIn print: Saturday, November 8, 2008 http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/article895167.eceTAMPA ? A month after issuing a stay of execution for Wayne Tompkins, the Florida Supreme Court on Friday denied the death row inmate's latest round of appeals. But in a pointed dissent, one justice questioned the conduct of the Hillsborough prosecutor who handled Tompkins' case 23 years ago. Justice Harry Lee Anstead argued that his colleagues should not dismiss allegations that Mike Benito, a former assistant state attorney, urged a key state witness to embellish his testimony. "Indeed, if the claim is true, we have a state prosecutor who committed a criminal act in tampering with a witness," Anstead wrote...continue to full post

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