Opinion ID: 2544290
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Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Final Order Denying Postconviction Relief

Text: On December 3, 2008, the postconviction court denied Kilgore's motion to vacate judgment of conviction and sentence. With regard to Kilgore's mental retardation claim, the postconviction court found that Kilgore had not met the Florida criteria for significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, and thus did not address the other two prongs for establishing mental retardation under Florida law. The postconviction court also found that [t]he testimony regarding Defendant's early life is largely cumulative where the defense penalty phase witnesses testified regarding the family's poverty and work as sharecroppers, Defendant's lack of education, physical abuse by his mother, Defendant's and his family's history of alcohol abuse, drinking moonshine as a child and possible exposure to lead from the moonshine, effects of his diabetic condition, head injuries and frequent beatings as a juvenile. Ultimately, the postconviction court denied relief on all 27 claims. This appeal follows.