State v. Posey

WOODROW M. MELVIN, Circuit Judge.

This cause is before the court upon the petition of Edsel Posey, proceeding under Criminal Rule 1.850, to vacate the jury verdict, judgment and sentence rendered in the above prosecution. The defendant incorporates as a part of his petition here the proceedings had in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, in Edsel Posey, Petitioner, versus Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida, Respondent, No. 69-358-Cir-J.

The history of the case is correctly set forth in the state’s response, as follows —

On October…