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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From this week’s email edition: Willie H. Nowell v. State from the Florida Supreme Court leads off this edition. The Nowell Court grants a new trial as the trial court erred in allowing the State?s peremptory strike against a member of a minority group; the prosecutor’s claim that he struck a juror out of a general “dislike” of the “type” of juror he that the venireperson would be was inappropriate.  Additionally, the trial court erred in denying appellant?s objections and motions for mistrial made during the State?s penalty phase closing argument: “Mercy. State asks that you recommend mercy if mercy is warranted. And mercy wasn’t given in this case, not by Mr. Nowell, not by Mr. Bellamy. There was no mercy there, none whatsoever...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).