MARCUS A. SAWYER v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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• pointing out that absent some effort to secure witness’s appearance, request for “missing witness” instruction “indicates that defense counsel is more interested in exploiting the witness’s absence than seeing him produced”
• affirming a dismissal with prejudice for failure to comply with Rules 17 8(a) and 8(e), finding that both the original complaint and an amended complaint were “verbose, 18 confusing and conclusory”
• affirming a dismissal with prejudice for failure to comply with Rules 18 8(a) and 8(e), finding that both the original complaint and an amended complaint were “verbose, 19 confusing and conclusory”
• affirming a dismissal with prejudice for failure to comply with Rules 6 8(a) and 8(e), finding that both the original complaint and an amended complaint were “verbose, 7 confusing and conclusory”
• adverse inference may not be drawn unless evidence shows that “witness would be relevant and noncumulative”
• “A complaint which fails to comply with [Rule 8] may be 19 dismissed with prejudice[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).