711 So. 2d 619 - State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “In the early morning hours of December 5, 1981, Avil Francis was shot to death while sleeping at a residence in Winter Haven, Florida. His newlywed wife, Bernadette Francis, was shot in the head, but survived the shooting. The residence was the former marital abode of Ms. Francis and Robinson, who were divorced five months prior to the shootings. At a trial in August 1982, the jury found Robinson guilty of the first-degree murder of Mr. Francis and the attempted first-degree murder of Ms. Francis. The trial court sentenced Robinson to life in prison with a minimum of twenty-five years, plus a consecutive prison term of twenty years with a three-year minimum.[ [1] ] Approximately fourteen years later, in July 1996, Robinson filed a motion for postconviction relief asserting newly discovered evidence. Robinson alleged that Ms. Francis and her daughter lied at his trial concerning their eyewitness accounts of the shooting. In support of his motion, he filed the affidavit of a fellow inmate, Wilbert Hollins, who purportedly obtained such information during a conversation with Ms. Francis in New York, in 1989. Robinson claimed that he learned of this information only a few months prior to filing his 1996 motion for postconviction relief. In response to Robinson's motion, the State agreed to an evidentiary hearing. Following the evidentiary hearing, the trial court granted postconviction relief by written order in May 1997.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 770 So. 2d 1167 - Robinson v. State

2. “so clearly outweighs the newly discovered, impeachment evidence that no reasonable person would have reached the conclusion that the trial court did.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 770 So. 2d 1167 - Robinson v. State

3. “The Court finds that the newly discovered evidence could probably produce an acquittal on retrial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 770 So. 2d 1167 - Robinson v. State