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Crist, staff solemn as Marek is executed
Starke :: FL :: USA | 3 months ago
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Fla. (AP) — Gov. Charlie Crist silently held two framed photos of Adella Marie Simmons as a voice came over his speaker phone Wednesday evening, telling him the next in a series of eight syringes was being injected into the arm of the man who killed her.
Tags: The Florida Supreme Court, John Richard Marek, Florida State Prison, South Florida, Broward County, Adella Marie Simmons, man convicted, Raymond Wigley
Fla. justices: Crist must choose jurist from list
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Gov. Charlie Crist ran afoul of the state Constitution when he refused to fill an appeals court seat because all of the potential picks submitted to him were white, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday. The high court ruled that Crist...
Tags: The Florida Supreme Court, Charlie Crist, court rules, district court, appeal court, Florida Constitution, white list
Inmate convicted in Charlotte prison slaying loses appeal
Punta Gorda :: FL :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility A Florida inmate who killed a female guard and a fellow prisoner has lost an appeal of his double murder conviction and death sentence. The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-0 against Dwight T...He already was serving a life sentence for murder...
Tags: The Florida Supreme Court, death sentence, Charlotte Correctional Institution
Florida Supreme Court upholds state lobbying ethics law in ruling sought by federal court
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the state's highly restrictive lobbyist ethics law. The justices ruled 6-0 on Thursday that the law was properly passed by the Legislature and does not violate the Florida Constitution. The law was passed in...
Fla. high court denies Crist new gambling hearing
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Crist asked for a rehearing, which the court denied Thursday. The justices ruled 7-0 in July against a compact Crist signed with the tribe to allow Las Vegas-style slot machines, blackjack and baccarat games at its Florida casinos. The high court sided...
Tags: The Florida Supreme Court, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Charlie Crist, court deny, gambling compact
Court strikes down lower court porn ruling
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Florida Supreme Court says its OK for sex offenders to possess pornography if it's not "relevant" to their "deviant behavior pattern." The court's 5-2 ruling Thursday in a 66-page decision overturned a lower court ruling in a Miami case resulting...
Supreme Court tosses death sentence in St. Lucie killing
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 10, 2008 The Florida Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence imposed on a man who strangled a 40-year-old woman to death in St. Lucie County only a month after finishing a prison sentence for killing...
Court to hear false-light arguments
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Florida Supreme Court will hear arguments today in two First Amendment cases involving thorny issues of libel, defamation and invasion of privacy. One of the cases stems from a lawsuit against the Pensacola News Journal over a 1998 article about
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