Legal Opinion
Philmore v. McNeil
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 23, 2009No. 07-13637PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Per curiam
Lenard Philmore (“Philmore”), a Florida death row prisoner, appeals the district court’s denial of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Philmore received the death penalty for the 1997 murder of Kazue Perron, whom he kidnapped and killed in order to use her vehicle for a bank robbery. After careful consideration of all the evidence and the parties’ arguments, we AFFIRM.
I. BACKGROUND
On 14 November 1997, Philmore carjacked at gunpoint a gold Lexus driven by Kazue Perron (“Perron”) in Palm Beach, Florida. Philmore v. State, 820 So.2d 919, 923-24 (Fla.2002) (per curiam). Philmore and his…
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