Mazzara v. State

Leonard Mazzara appeals the order denying, after an evidentiary hearing conducted on July 23, 2008, the motion for postconviction relief he filed on June 11, 2003, under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. Although we are unable to agree with all of the reasoning in the order, we affirm.

At Leonard Mazzara’s trial in September of 1982, the state put on evidence that Barry Hoffman and James White had murdered Frank Ihlenfeld and Linda Parrish in a Jacksonville Beach motel room on September 7, 1980, at Mr. Maz-zara’s behest.1 Mr. Hoffman testified that he had not conspired with Mr. Mazzara…