Opinion ID: 1882486
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 36

Heading: judicial bias throughout mr. muhammad's re-sentencing constitutes fundamental error and denied mr. muhammad's rights under the fifth, sixth, eighth and fourteenth amendments to the united states constitution. mr. muhammad was denied a fair adversarial testing.

Text: The defendant alleges that the trial court was biased against him because he is mentally ill and had him removed from the courtroom. The defendant complains that the trial court was biased in that he found defendant's lack of control in the courtroom to the will rather than mental illness. Initially this court will note that adverse rulings do not make a judge biased. Rivera v. State, 717 So.2d 477, 480 (Fla.1998). Additionally, the issue of the defendant's removal from the courtroom was raised on appeal and affirmed where the Supreme Court found that the trial judge acted within his discretion in repeatedly removing Knight from the courtroom, especially considering the testimony of numerous guards and jailhouse officials that Knight's out of court demeanor was completely at odds with his in court histrionics. Knight v. State, 746 So.2d at 434 (n.12 & 13). The defendant also alleges that the sentencing court was biased in that he called the defense expert a pain in the neck. As can be seen from the context in which the statement occurred, the record refutes any claim of bias against the defendant but rather shows that it was a scheduling problem as to the convenience or the inconvenience of the doctor scheduled. RST. 2820-2824, 2452, 2500, 2544, 2664-65. Accordingly this claim is denied without an evidentiary hearing.