Salazar v. State
Decision Date | 18 February 2016 |
Docket Number | SC14–887.,Nos. SC13–1233,s. SC13–1233 |
Citation | 188 So.3d 799 |
Parties | Neil K. SALAZAR, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. Neil K. Salazar, Petitioner, v. Julie L. Jones, etc., Respondent. |
Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Richard Adam Sichta and Joseph Stewart Hamrick of The Sichta Firm, LLC., Jacksonville, FL, for Appellant/Petitioner.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL; Leslie T. Campbell, Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine Yzquierdo McIntire, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, FL, for Appellee/Respondent.
Salazar appeals an order of the circuit court denying his motion to vacate his conviction of first-degree murder and sentence of death filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851 and petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus. For the reasons that follow, we remand for a new penalty phase and deny his habeas petition.1
The relevant facts were summarized in this Court's opinion on direct appeal:
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