Cotton v. State

Appellant filed a 247-page pro se motion for post-conviction relief raising approximately 12 different claims for post-conviction relief following his conviction and 30-year sentence for second degree murder. Appellant’s motion was verified and timely from the date that this court affirmed his conviction and sentence in Cotton v. State, 23 Fla. L. Weekly D1536, - So.2d -, 1998 WL 329441 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998). It raised multiple claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, prosecutorial misconduct and other trial court error. The trial court summarily denied this motion without ordering a…