Leo L. Boatman v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC2022-1547 ____________ LEO L. BOATMAN, Appellant, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. October 17, 2024 PER CURIAM. Leo L. Boatman appeals his conviction and death sentence for the first-degree premeditated murder of William L. Chapman, a fellow inmate in Florida State Prison. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. We affirm. 1 I. BACKGROUND The murder took place on July 5, 2019, in the dayroom in the prison’s I-Wing. Unsurprisingly, the relevant events were largely 1. Boatman does not appeal his separate conviction and sentence for one…