Howell v. Sec., FL Dept. of Corrections, No. 13-10766 (11th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CasePetitioner was sentenced to death for the murder of a Florida Highway Patrol who intercepted and opened a bomb that petitioner sent to a woman he feared would report a murder committed as part of a drug trafficking conspiracy. The court concluded that the district court did not abuse its discretion when it read Gonzalez v. Crosby to mean that the change of law in Holland v. Florida was not an extraordinary circumstance. Holland altered the court's previous interpretation of the statute of limitations of one year for a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The Supreme Court held that the type of change in decisional law in this instance was not an extraordinary circumstance under Rule 60(b). Accordingly, the court affirmed the denial of petitioner's motion for relief from judgment.
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