708 So. 2d 244 (1997) 5-H CORPORATION, et al., Petitioners, v. Philip J. PADOVANO, Judge, etc., et al., Respondents. No. 90887. Supreme Court of Florida. November 25, 1997. Rehearings Denied January 29, 1998 and April 8, 1998. Louis C. Arslanian, Hollywood, for Petitioners. HARDING, Justice. The petitioners seek a writ of prohibition to prevent all of the judges of the First District Court of Appeal from presiding over the petitioners' appeal currently pending in that court. We have...
699 So. 2d 1369 (1997) In re INQUIRY CONCERNING A JUDGE, No. 97-01 re Nancy F. ALLEY. No. 90691. Supreme Court of Florida. October 9, 1997. Thomas C. MacDonald, Jr., General Counsel for the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, Tampa, for petitioner. Richard C. McFarlain of McFarlain, Wiley, Cassedy & Jones, P.A., Tallahassee, for respondent. PER CURIAM. We review the recommendation of the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) that Circuit Judge Nancy F. Alley be disciplined by...
701 So. 2d 1168 (1997) Robert Joseph LONG, Petitioner, v. Bob DILLINGER, etc., Respondent. No. 90617. Supreme Court of Florida. November 13, 1997. Sidney W. Kilgore, Assistant CCR, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tampa, for Petitioner. Bob Dillinger, Public Defender, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Clearwater, for Respondent. PER CURIAM. Robert Joseph Long petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus to require Bob Dillinger, the public defender for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, to...
696 So. 2d 1184 (1997) Maurice Antonio MANN, et al., Petitioners, v. CHIEF JUDGE OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, et al., Respondents. No. 90498. Supreme Court of Florida. July 7, 1997. Julianne M. Holt, Public Defender and Theda R. James, Assistant Public Defender, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Tampa; and Richard Escobar of Richard Escobar, P.A., Tampa, for Petitioners. David A. Rowland, Court Counsel, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Tampa; and Angela D. McCravy, Assistant Attorney General,...
702 So. 2d 487 (1997) David L. TAYLOR, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. No. 90439. Supreme Court of Florida. November 26, 1997. Wm. J. Sheppard and Richard W. Smith of Sheppard and White, P.A., Jacksonville, for Petitioner. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and David H. Foxman, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Respondent. GRIMES, Senior Justice. We review Taylor v. State, 690 So. 2d 686 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997), based on conflict with Cecil v. State, 614 So. 2d 603 (...
695 So. 2d 682 (1997) Barry HOFFMAN, Petitioner, v. L. Page HADDOCK, etc. Respondent. No. 90403. Supreme Court of Florida. May 30, 1997. *683 Stephen M. Kissinger, Assistant CCR, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Barbara J. Yates, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee; and Harry Shorstein, State Attorney and Laura L. Starrett, Assistant State Attorney, Jacksonville, on behalf of The State of Florida; Fred...
699 So. 2d 1352 (1997) The STATE of Florida and the Several Property Owners, Taxpayers and Citizens of the State of Florida, Including Non-Residents Owning Property or Subject to Taxation Therein, and Others Having or Claiming any Right, Title or Interest in Property to be Affected by the Issuance of the Bonds Herein Described, or to be Affected Thereby, Appellants, v. INLAND PROTECTION FINANCING CORPORATION, a not for profit public benefits corporation, Appellee. No. 90332. Supreme Court of...
699 So. 2d 1366 (1997) Ervin McCRAY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, et al., Respondents. No. 90305. Supreme Court of Florida. October 9, 1997. *1367 Patrick C. Rastatter of Glass & Rastatter, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner. No appearance for respondent. OVERTON, Justice. Ervin McCray petitions this Court for writ of habeas corpus, asserting a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, ยง 3(b)(9), Fla. Const. We deny the petition, finding it to be...
701 So. 2d 543 (1997) PAROLE COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. Mark COOPER, Respondent. No. 90237. Supreme Court of Florida. September 25, 1997. Rehearing Denied November 20, 1997. William L. Camper, General Counsel, and Bradley R. Bischoff, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Parole Commission, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Mark Cooper, Moore Haven, pro se. Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender, and Diane M. Cuddihy, Assistant Public Defender, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, for Respondent....
701 So. 2d 76 (1997) Leo Alexander JONES, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. No. 90231. Supreme Court of Florida. October 20, 1997. Gregory C. Smith, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-Northern District and Gail E. Anderson, Assistant Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Tallahassee, Martin J. McClain, Litigation Director, Office of Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Southern District, Miami, for Petitioner. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Richard B. Martell, Chief,...
691 So. 2d 481 (1997) Leo Alexander JONES, Petitioner, v. Robert BUTTERWORTH, etc., et al., Respondents. No. 90231. Supreme Court of Florida. April 10, 1997. Martin J. McClain, Litigation Director, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Richard B. Martell, Chief, Capital Appeals and Curtis M. French, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Respondents. ORDER We address the Petition Seeking to Invoke this Court'...
695 So. 2d 679 (1997) Leo Alexander JONES, Petitioner, v. Robert BUTTERWORTH, etc., et al., Respondents. No. 90231. Supreme Court of Florida. May 22, 1997. Order Modifying Opinion on Rehearing June 13, 1997. *680 Martin J. McClain, Litigation Director and Gail E. Anderson, Assistant CCR, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Richard B. Martell, Chief, Capital Appeals and Curtis M. French, Assistant Attorney General,...
692 So. 2d 180 (1997) Gerald Eugene STANO, Petitioner, v. Harry SINGLETARY, Respondent. No. 90230. Supreme Court of Florida. April 23, 1997. Upon consideration of the Notice of Inability to Accept Representation of Person Under Sentence of Death, this Court expressly recognizes the Office of the Capital Collateral *181 Representative as counsel for Gerald Eugene Stano. The motion for stay of execution on the issue concerning the electric chair is treated as an extraordinary writ and...
695 So. 2d 672 (1997) William F. POE, Sr., Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, City of Tampa, Florida and Tampa Sports Authority, Appellees, Cross-Appellants. No. 90223. Supreme Court of Florida. May 22, 1997. Rehearing Denied June 18, 1997. *673 Diane D. Tremor and Chris H. Bentley of Rose, Sundstrom & Bentley, Tallahassee; and Thomas K. Morrison of Morrison, Morrison & Mills, Tampa, for Appellant, Cross-Appellee. Emeline C. Acton, County Attorney; Mary Helen Campbell and...
700 So. 2d 1220 (1997) Elmo H. GAY, Petitioner, v. Harry K. SINGLETARY, etc., et al., Respondents. No. 90163. Supreme Court of Florida. October 23, 1997. Elmo H. Gay, Panama City, Petitioner, pro se. Leeann Knowles, Assistant General Counsel, Department of Corrections, Tallahassee; Bradley R. Bischoff, Assistant General Counsel, Florida Parole Commission, Tallahassee, and Clifford C. Higby of Bryant and Higby, Chartered, Panama City, for Respondent. PER CURIAM. Elmo H. Gay petitions this Court...
702 So. 2d 1245 (1997) ORANGE COUNTY, etc., Appellant, v. Freddie Lee WILLIAMS, Appellee. No. 90143. Supreme Court of Florida. September 11, 1997. Rehearing Denied December 11, 1997. *1246 George L. Dorsett, Assistant County Attorney, Orlando; and Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Kenneth S. Nunnelley, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for appellant. Martin J. McClain, Chief Assistant CCR, and Sylvia W. Smith, Staff Attorney, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative,...
698 So. 2d 834 (1997) PETITION OF THE COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF CONDUCT GOVERNING JUDGES. No. 90133. Supreme Court of Florida. September 4, 1997. Charles J. Kahn, Jr., Chairman, Committee on Standards of Conduct Governing Judges, Tallahassee, for petitioner. Anthony V. Pace, Jr., Boca Raton, responding. PER CURIAM. The Committee on Standards of Conduct Governing Judges (Committee) has requested certain amendments to the Committee's enabling authority as established in Petition of Committee on...
700 So. 2d 647 (1997) Raleigh PORTER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. No. 90101. Supreme Court of Florida. September 25, 1997. *648 Martin J. McClain, Litigation Director, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Miami, for appellant. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Robert J. Landry, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for appellee. PER CURIAM. Appellant is under a sentence of death from the Circuit Court in Charlotte County and is presently in this Court on appeal from denial...
699 So. 2d 1009 (1997) Kenneth Harold MOODY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. No. 90014. Supreme Court of Florida. October 2, 1997. Kenneth Harold Moody, Blountstown, Pro Se. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant Attorney General and Dale E. Tarpley, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Respondent. PER CURIAM. We have for review Moody v. State, 696 So. 2d 797 (Fla. 2d DCA 1997), which expressly and directly conflicts with decisions of the...
701 So. 2d 344 (1997) Susan F. WOOD, etc., et al., Appellants, v. ELI LILLY & CO., etc., et al., Appellees. No. 90001. Supreme Court of Florida. October 30, 1997. Ben J. Weaver of Weaver & Weaver, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for Appellants. Hugh J. Turner, Jr. and Christopher K. Leigh of English, McCaughan & O'Bryan, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for Appellee Eli Lilly and Company. John A. Reed, Jr. and R. Kimbark Lee of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A., Orlando, for Appellee The Upjohn...
