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By Steve Hall

The St. Petersburg Times reports, "Court vacates Polk killer's death sentences due to prosecutor's misconduct," by Colleen Jenkins.Citing a prosecutor's misconduct, the Florida Supreme Court took the unusual step Thursday of vacating the death sentences of a triple murderer whose death warrant Gov. Charlie Crist signed last year.Two separate juries found Paul Beasley Johnson guilty of gunning down a Polk County sheriff's deputy and two other people during a drug-fueled crime rampage in January 1981.But in a harshly worded opinion, the court's 4-1 majority ordered a new penalty phase, finding that "the record here is so rife with evidence of previously undisclosed prosecutorial misconduct that we have no choice but to grant relief...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 15, 2010 (boomark / email).