Norman Blake McKenzie v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• denying a new proportionality review in postconviction for evidence the defendant chose not to present during the penalty phase
• denying a new proportionality review in postconviction for evidence the defendant chose not to present during the penalty phase
• affirming summary denial of postconviction claim alleging PSI deficiencies; reasoning that claim was “waived” where, among other things, defendant responded in the negative when asked “if anything was missing from the report”
• “A defendant who chooses to represent himself cannot later complain that the quality of his defense was substandard or amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).