Johnny Paul Witt v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Jim Smith, Attorney General, State of Florida

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• finding abuse of the writ when claim raised in case upon which petitioner relied “had been raised long before [that] case” so that failure to present the claim in his first petition was “necessarily attributable to abandonment or inexcusable neglect”
• insufficient to allege that evidence was not available if it was within petitioner’s power to elicit such evidence at time of earlier petition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).