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Supreme Court of Florida· 1/27/2006

Rutherford v. State

Citations

  • 926 So. 2d 1100
  • 2006 WL 204838

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  • holding that newly discovered evidence must be based on facts that were unknown to the trial court, appellant, and his counsel at the time of trial and that neither the appellant nor his counsel could have discovered the facts through the exercise of due diligence
  • holding that newly discovered evidence must be based on facts that were unknown to the trial court, appellant, and his counsel at the time of trial and that neither the appellant nor his counsel could have discovered the facts through the exercise of due diligence
  • affirming denial of records request under rule 3.852(h)(3) because the records were not related to a colorable claim for postconviction relief
  • affirming denial of records under rule 3.852(h)(3) because no prior requests were made and because the records are not related to a colorable claim for postconviction relief
  • denying the substantially same records request because the defendant failed to demonstrate that he had previously requested records concerning lethal injection in Florida, and reasoning that rule 3.852(h)(3) \is designed to allow an update of records previously requested\
  • rejecting the argument that the study published in The Lancet presented new scientific evidence that Florida’s lethal-injection procedure possibly created a foreseeable risk of the gratuitous infliction of unnecessary pain on the person being executed

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