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Titel v. State

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LEON TITEL, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.Case No. 4D06-4993. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. Opinion filed May 21, 2008. Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Michael G. Kaplan, Judge, L.T. Case No. 98-12550 CF10A. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Paul E. Petillo, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Daniel P. Hyndman, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee. KLEIN, J. This is an appeal from a denial of a rule 3.850 motion for postconviction relief following an evidentiary hearing. Appellant, who was convicted of sexual battery and kidnapping, argues that his trial counsel was ineffective because he intended to strike a biased juror, but neglected to do so...continue to full post

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