WELCH ET AL.

v.

WELCH, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF WELCH, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Sliney v. State, 699 So. 2d 662 (Fla. 1997)
  …L.Ed.2d 766 (1996). Furthermore, we agree with the trial court that the eodefendant’s life sentence does not require a different result because Sliney was more culpable than his codefend-ant. See Heath v. State, 648 So. 2d 660 (Fla.), cert. denied, 515 U.S. 1162, 115 S.Ct. 2618, 132 L.Ed.2d 860 (1995). In addition to imposing the death penalty, the trial court imposed an upward departure sentence of life for Sliney’s armed robbery conviction. Sliney contends that the upward departure was improper because i…
• Robbins v. State, 891 So. 2d 1102 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004)
  …shall, 476 So. 2d 150 (Fla.1985); State v. DiGiulio, 491 So. 2d 1129 (Fla.1986), review denied, 717 So. 2d 542, and cert. denied, 525 U.S. 858, 119 S.Ct. 142, 142 L.Ed.2d 115 (1998)); see also Heath v. State, 648 So. 2d 660 (Fla.1994), cert. denied, 515 U.S. 1162, 115 S.Ct. 2618, 132 L.Ed.2d 860 (1995). This analysis requires that we determine whether the State has met its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the verdict. DiGuilio; Walker; see also Williams v. Stat…
• Heath v. State of Fla. & Ronald Palmer Heath v. Sec'y, 426 So. 3d 1253 (Fla. 2026)
  …62-63 (Fla. 1994) (footnotes omitted). On appeal, this Court affirmed Heath's first-degree murder conviction and death sentence, id. at 666, which became final when the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari review in 1995, Heath v. Florida, 515 U.S. 1162 (1995); see Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.851(d)(1)(B) (“For the purposes of this rule, a judgment is final . . . on the disposition of the petition for writ of certiorari by the United States Supreme Court, if filed.”). In the decades since, Heath has unsucc…