Joseph R. Spaziano v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Thomas L. Barton, Superintendent, Florida State Prison

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• holding that district court’s finding as to what state trial judge knew and did is a question of historical fact reviewed for clear error
• stating that the new rule “must be so fundamentally important that its announcement is a ‘groundbreaking occurrence’ ”
• stating that the new rule \must be so fundamentally important that its announcement is a `groundbreaking occurrence'\
• noting that trial court was required to consider any mitigating evidence actually presented at resentencing
• holding the district court had not erred in denying an evidentiary hearing, because \the record trumps the Schwarz affidavit and conclusively shows that this claim is without merit\
• noting that trial court was required to consider any mitigating evidence actually presented at resentencing

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