Agatheas v. State

Nicholas Agatheas seeks review of Agatheas v. State, 28 So.3d 204 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010), in which the Fourth District Court of Appeal denied Agatheas’s claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and fundamental error with respect to the admission of a 45-caliber revolver. The Fourth District held that the trial court properly admitted the 45-caliber revolver, which was recovered from Agatheas when he was arrested five years after the murder — even though the revolver was indisputably not connected to the crime. The Fourth District concluded that because the revolver was properly admitted, both…