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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s email edition is now available. From that edition: The Florida Supreme Court’s decision in Eddie Junior Bigham v. State leads this week.  The Bigham Court  reduces the condemned’s conviction to second degree murder. “ecause we conclude the evidence is insufficient to prove premeditation.” “While we find that the evidence was sufficient to rule out any hypothesis but that Bigham caused Lulu’s death, we do not find that the evidence was sufficient to prove that Bigham had the conscious purpose to kill Lulu.” One justice dissents on whether there was even enough evidence to convict Bigham of any degree of homicide in the death of Lourdes “LuLu” Cavazos-Blandin. Another justice dissented believing there was enough circumstantial evidence to prove premeditation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).