In Re Carl Elson Shriner, Carl Elson Shriner v. Louie L. Wainwright

BY THE COURT:

Petitioner Carl Elson Shriner is a Florida prisoner under the sentence of death for first degree murder. The petitioner’s judgment and sentence were affirmed on direct appeal by the Florida Supreme Court in Shriner v. State, 386 So.2d 525 (Fla.1980), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 1103, 101 S.Ct. 899, 66 L.Ed.2d 829 (1981). In April 1982, Shriner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Florida. That petition was denied in Shriner v. Wainwright, 570 F.Supp. 766 (N.D.Fla.1982). This Court affirmed the district court’s denial of…