Thursday, March 7, 2002
State ex rel. Robert A. Butterworth v. Bill Jennings

no. 01-1587

Escambia, Sumter and Broward Counties

Attorneys for the three Capital Collateral Regional offices, on behalf of their death-sentenced clients, have filed challenges to non-capital cases for which their clients also were convicted. The attorneys contend that these challenges are necessary because their clients' death sentences were based in part on these earlier convictions. Attorney General Bob Butterworth petitioned the Court to prohibit CCRC attorneys from filing these challenges on grounds they are only authorized to represent their clients in capital cases.