Wednesday, August, 2002
Linroy Bottoson -vs- Michael W. Moore

no. 02-1455

Orange County


Bottoson was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the December 29, 1979 murder of Catherine Willie Alexander. His sentence was
affirmed on appeal. The Governor issued a warrant for his execution earlier this year. The execution was stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court
pending its resolution of an Arizona case in an opinion issued a few months later. Bottoson now argues that the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion has
undermined the validity of Florida's death penalty statute, while the State contends it has not.