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Justice Anstead, Florida Supreme Court, dissent in Wayne Tompkins

http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/FSCopinionWaynedenied.htm For the reasons discussed above, we affirm the trial court?s summary denial of Tompkins?s fourth and fifth successive motions for postconviction relief and we - 39 - also deny his petition for all writs jurisdiction, or alternatively for writ of habeas corpus, or both.20 It is so ordered. WELLS, PARIENTE, LEWIS, and POLSTON, JJ., concur. ANSTEAD, J., concurs in part and dissents in part with an opinion. QUINCE, C.J., and CANADY, J., recused. NO MOTION FOR REHEARING WILL BE ALLOWED. ANSTEAD, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part. I cannot agree with the majority?s summary rejection of the defendant?s unrefuted claim that the State unlawfully manufactured critical evidence against him...continue to full post

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