Shriner v. State

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit in and for Alachua County denying appellant’s motion for post-conviction relief. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.

Carl Shriner (appellant) was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death following the jury’s recommendation. This Court affirmed the conviction and sentence in Shriner v. State, 386 So.2d 525 (Fla.1980), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 1103, 101 S.Ct. 899, 66 L.Ed.2d 829 (1981). Appellant then filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus which was denied by Shriner v.…