Florida Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Roger Cherry

CapDefNet has a strong roundup of some of last week’s federal court decisions:

• On April 12, 2007, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Roger Cherry’s second motion for postconviction relief and his motion for determination of mental retardation. Cherry v. State, ___ So.2d ___, 2007 WL 1074931 (Fla. April 12, 2007). At the mental retardation hearing, one of the experts testified that he administered the WAIS-III and Cherry received a full scale IQ score of 72.