LeCroy v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

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• noting that there was no Brady violation because the defendant could have obtained the information had he used “reasonable diligence”
• concluding that a state postconviction court’s denial of a defendant’s Rule 3.850 motion rested on an independent and adequate state ground where the court determined that the defendant failed to comply with the procedural requirements of Rule 3.850
• noting that, for purposes of exhaustion, a substantive claim is “separate and distinct” from an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim based on the substantive claim
• noting that there was no violation because the defendant could have obtained the information had he used “reasonable diligence”
• noting that a substantive claim was “separate and distinct” from an ineffective assistance claim based on the substantive claim
• finding no Brady violation where defendant’s counsel could have obtained the relevant evidence by exercising “reasonable diligence”

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