MCPHERSON

v.

LAVAN, SUPERINTENDENT, STATE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION AT DALLAS, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Sochor v. State, 883 So. 2d 766 (Fla. 2004)
  …Belcher v. State, 851 So. 2d 678, 685 (Fla.) (rejecting Ring claim where two of the aggravating circumstances found by the trial judge were defendant’s prior violent felony and that the murder was committed in the course of a felony), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1054, 124 S.Ct. 816, 157 L.Ed.2d 706 (2003).28 IV. CONCLUSION For the reasons expressed above, we affirm the circuit court’s denial of Sochor’s rule 3.850 motion for postconviction relief and deny Sochor’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. It is s…
• Johnson v. State, 921 So. 2d 490 (Fla. 2005)
  …he ineffective assistance of counsel claim, this Court has repeatedly affirmed the giving of the same catch-all nonstatutory mitigation jury instruction that was given in Johnson’s case. Belcher v. State, 851 So. 2d 678, 684-85 (Fla.), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1054, 124 S.Ct. 816, 157 L.Ed.2d 706 (2003); Downs v. Moore, 801 So. 2d 906, 913 (Fla.2001) (holding that the “catch-all” standard jury instruction on nonstatutory mitigation when coupled with counsel’s right to argue mitigation is sufficient to advise t…