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Kristian C. Brooks-Marlar of Lakeland has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Matthew Ross McCraney, also of Lakeland. Polk County sheriff’s detectives allege that Brooks-Marlar and McCraney got into a fight early last Sunday morning. The two... [Read More]
Attorneys involved in the capital murder case against John Kalisz in Hernando County spent all day Tuesday questioning prospective jury members. They begin another day of jury selection on Wednesday morning. Kalisz, already convicted of killing a sheriff’s deputy in... [Read More]
Brothers Isidro and Carlos Jones were denied bond in a newly filed murder charge against them in Pinellas County Circuit Court. The brothers are charged with killing Zorana Lebedic in Clearwater back in September as she rode her bicycle home... [Read More]
Julian Ospina-Florez, a naturalized citizen from Colombia, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder this week after a Tampa physician and his wife were shot and killed. The Hillsborough County Sheriff and prosecutors accus Ospina-Florez of shooting Hector... [Read More]
In late November, Alcisviades Polanco of Tampa cut off Wathson Adelson, also of Tampa, in traffic on Manhattan Avenue. Adelson then sped around Polanco and stopped his car. Both men got out of their cars and began to argue. The... [Read More]
As reported in the St. Petersburg Times last week, Phillip J. Peterson and his attorney Bjorn Brunvand of this office reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in the midst of his trial for second-degree murder. Peterson was accused of shooting... [Read More]
Four people were arrested in New Port Richey this week and charged with first-degree murder, two weeks after the November 10th beating death of Samuel Martinez Pratts in a vacant house. Adam Ekdahl, Courtney Ann Keeven, Zoraina Castillo and Staci... [Read More]
State Senator Thad Altman has proposed changing Florida’s statute requiring that a jury recommendation of execution must be unanimous decision of all 12 jurors. Altman, a Republican, says it is “inconsistent and illogical” that the law requires a unanimous verdict... [Read More]
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber announced a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term. This makes Oregon the fifth state to halt executions since 2007. Kitzhaber is a former emergency room doctor who still retains an active... [Read More]
On the same day that jury selection begins in two separate death penalty cases in Hillsborough Circuit Court, similar efforts are underway in Largo before a Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court judge. Jury selection has begun in the murder case against Patrick... [Read More]
Two capital murder trials are under way today in the Hillsborough County Courthouse. Local media has noted the large number of people on hand as two separate, large jury pools have been assembled for jury selection in the two cases... [Read More]
Paul Merhige pleaded guilty this week to killing four of his relatives in Jupiter, Florida on Thanksgiving, 2009. The plea agreement Merhige’s defense attorney reached with the Palm Beach County prosecutors will spare him the death penalty in exchange for... [Read More]
Psychologist William Lambos testified last week, in a Tampa courtroom, that Humberto Delgado Jr. has such massive brain damage that he qualifies as legally insane. Delgado is charged with first-degree murder and faces the death penalty for the death of... [Read More]
James Robertson gave information to prosecutors in 2003 regarding two then-unsolved 1998 homicides in downtown Tampa. He cooperated in an investigation in return for a grant of immunity, something that the government denies. Robertson admitted having witnessed the killing of... [Read More]
59-year-old William Hurst was arrested this week in Kentucky, charged with first-degree murder in Pasco County. He awaits extradition to Florida to face the charges. He is accused of killing his wife Amy Rose Hurst. None of that is altogether... [Read More]
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