JOHNSON v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 68319.

498 So.2d 938 (1986)

Paul Beasley JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Helm Spalding, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Robert J. Krauss, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

Paul Johnson, a Florida prisoner under sentence of death, petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, §§ 3(b)(1), (9), Fla. Const. We grant the writ and remand for a new trial.

A jury convicted Johnson of, among other things, three counts of first-degree murder and recommended that he be sentenced to death. The trial court imposed three death sentences on Johnson, and we affirmed his convictions and...

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