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this week’s edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

After the jump the rough draft of this week’s cases, no barn burners. Week of May 2,  2010: In Favor of the State or Government (initial list) Alan Lyndell Wade v. State, 2010 Fla. LEXIS 687 (FL 5/6/2010) “None of a prosecutor’s statements during the guilt-phase or penalty-phase closing arguments were improper or misleading as they did not, individually or cumulatively, amount to fundamental error.”   [via Lexisone] Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. State, 2010 Fla. LEXIS 685 (FL 5/6/2010) “The denial of [ ] petition for postconviction relief was proper because, although letters that a jail inmate wrote to the prosecutor should have been disclosed, the inmate failed to establish any prejudice. The jury was aware that the brother of the inmate’s girlfriend had entered a plea in order to avoid the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).