Jones v. Wainwright, No. 66505
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
| Writing for the Court | ADKINS; BOYD |
| Citation | 473 So.2d 1244,10 Fla. L. Weekly 314 |
| Parties | 10 Fla. L. Weekly 314 Leo Alexander JONES, Petitioner, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Respondent. |
| Docket Number | No. 66505 |
| Decision Date | 13 June 1985 |
Page 1244
v.
Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Respondent.
Rehearing Denied Sept. 5, 1985.
Page 1245
Robert J. Link of Goodstein & Link, Jacksonville, for petitioner.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Mark C. Menser, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.
ADKINS, Justice.
This is a petition for habeas corpus alleging ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(9), Fla. Const. For the reasons discussed below, we deny the petition for habeas corpus.
Jones was convicted of the first-degree murder of a Jacksonville police officer. On direct appeal, this Court affirmed his conviction and sentence of death. Jones v. State, 440 So.2d 570 (Fla.1983).
In his petition Jones alleges that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel in proceedings before this Court at the time of his direct appeal. Jones argues that his appellate counsel failed to raise or adequately address issues which, if raised and properly argued, would have required the reversal of his conviction and death sentence and a new trial and sentencing hearing. The standard by which this Court reviews a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel involves whether an act or omission specified constituted a serious and substantial deficiency falling below the standard of performance required of appellate counsel, and if so, whether the deficiency in performance prejudiced the essential fairness and reliability of the appeal. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984); Downs v. State, 453 So.2d 1102 (Fla.1984).
Petitioner first argues that his appellate counsel was ineffective because he should have argued on appeal that petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by improper, inflammatory, and prejudicial arguments presented by the prosecutors in the guilt phase summation of the trial. These arguments concerned, inter alia, the prosecutor's personal belief in the guilt of the defendant, appeals to sympathy for the victim and his family, and "golden rule" arguments that presented the shooting of a police officer as a crime against the jurors themselves. Most of the prosecutor's comments about which Jones complains were not objected to at trial; therefore, in the absence of fundamental error, appellate review is precluded. Johnson v. State, 463 So.2d 207 (Fla.1985); Castor v. State, 365 So.2d 701 ...
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