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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST DISTRICT 2000 Drayton Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0950 Telephone No. (850) 488-6151 September 2, 2025 Paul Cornelius Boatman, Case 1D2025-2102 Petitioner(s) L.T. No.: 2011 CF 000588 v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al., Respondent(s). BY ORDER OF THE COURT: Pursuant t

FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ No. 1D2024-2316 _____________________________ JOSE RAUL PLASENCIA, Appellant, v. RICKY D. DIXON, SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Appellee. _____________________________ On appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County. J. Lee Marsh, Judge. April 9, 2025 PER

FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ No. 1D18-1574 _____________________________ PAUL NIXON, Appellant, v. MARK S. INCH, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Appellee. _____________________________ On appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County. Karen Gievers, Judge. May 3, 2019 PER CURIAM.

HULL, Circuit Judge: Paul Everett, a Florida inmate, filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus, raising multiple challenges to his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. The district court denied Everett’s petition, but granted him a certificate of appealability (“COA”) as to one issue: Whether a law enforcement officer’s request for a consent to

FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ No. 1D18-0585 _____________________________ PAUL WHITE, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, JULIE L. JONES, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al., Appellees. _____________________________ On appeal from the Circuit Court for Hamilton County. Andrew J. Decker, III, Judge.

Case: 13-10766 Date Filed: 09/13/2013 Page: 1 of 28 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 13-10766 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 4:04-cv-00299-MCR-MD PAUL A. HOWELL,

Case: 13-10766 Date Filed: 09/13/2013 Page: 1 of 28 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 13-10766 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 4:04-cv-00299-MCR-MD PAUL A. HOWELL,

Case: 11-14498 Date Filed: 10/23/2012 Page: 1 of 43 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT _________________________ No. 11-14498 __________________________ D.C. Docket No. 2:08-cv-14402-JEM PAUL H. EVANS, Pe

CARNES, Circuit Judge: Confident that he knew what the future would bring, one of Shakespeare’s characters boasted that “[t]here are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.” William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene 3, lines 412-13. On the subject of lower courts predicting that the Supreme Court is going to overrule one of its own decisions

MARCUS, Circuit Judge: Petitioner Dean Kilgore was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, a consecutive life sentence for kidnapping, and an additional consecutive five-year sentence for armed trespass when he was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for killing a fellow inmate, Emer *

Order GREGORY A. PRESNELL, District Judge. I. INTRODUCTION The Petitioner, Jules Letemps, was convicted of sexual battery and kidnapping on November 21,1989. The conviction, which was primarily based on the victim’s identification of Letemps as the man who attacked her, came despite his testimony *1219(and that of his live-

669 F.3d 1197 (2011) Billy Leon KEARSE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondents-Appellees. No. 11-12267. United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. November 3, 2011. Paul Edward Kalil (Court-Appointed), Craig Joseph Trocino (Court-Appointed), Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-Sou

638 F.3d 1353 (2011) Eric S. BRANCH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent-Appellee. No. 10-11840. United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. April 21, 2011. Michael Paul Reiter, Venice, FL, Eric Scott Branch, Raiford, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant. Thomas David Winokur, Charmaine M. Millsaps, Office of Atty.

654 F.3d 1266 (2011) Manuel A. VALLE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondents-Appellees. No. 11-13962. United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. September 8, 2011. *1267 Paul Edward Kalil, Neal A. Dupree, Suzanne Myers Keffer, Capital Collatera

MARTIN, Circuit Judge: Michael Anthony Tanzi pleaded guilty to murdering Janet Acosta and was sentenced to death based on a unanimous jury recommendation. See Tanzi v. State, 964 So.2d 106, 111 (Fla.2007) (Tanzi I) (per curiam). After his conviction and sentence were affirmed by the Florida Supreme Court on direct appeal, id. <

HULL, Circuit Judge: Florida death row inmate Leroy Pooler appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Pooler argues that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective in the penalty phase of his murder trial for (1) failing to discover that certain information Pooler himself told counsel about his background was false

WILSON, Circuit Judge: When this case came before us previously, we remanded for consideration of whether Petitioner Billy Leon Kearse had presented clear and convincing evidence to rebut the state court’s presumptively correct finding that his verification page was not attached, incorporated, or appended to his motion for postconviction relief. The district court found that he

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge: Johnny Shane Kormondy, a Florida death row inmate convicted of murder, appeals the decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Two state court trial proceedings were before the District Court when it ruled. The first proceeding was the guilt phase of Kormondy’s bifur

WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge: The issue in this appeal is whether Mois-és Espinosa’s state petition for belated appeal tolled the one-year limitation period for filing a federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus. A jury convicted Espinosa of two counts of sexual battery on a child and the state intermediate appellate court affirmed. Espinosa moved for state post-conviction

MARCUS, Circuit Judge: At issue in this capital case is whether defense counsel were ineffective in failing to seek a competency hearing at the penalty phase of the defendant’s trial, and the corollary question of whether the defendant was in fact incompetent at the time he entered a plea of guilty to the brutal murder of eighteen-year-old Jennifer Robinson. The district court den