Opinion ID: 1597347
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Failure to Perform Due Diligence

Text: Taylor asserts this ineffectiveness argument in the alternative for his newly discovered evidence claims relating to Dr. Miller's testimony. Taylor alleges that should this Court find that any evidence could have been discovered at trial, then trial counsel was deficient for failure to discover said evidence. As discussed above with Dr. Miller's testimony, and below with Taylor's other claims, we conclude there was no material new evidence presented during these proceedings. Further, unlike the situation in State v. Gunsby, 670 So.2d 920 (Fla.1996), upon which Taylor relies, the State has not been shown to have withheld evidence, and trial counsel has not been found to have failed to object to abuses by the State. See id. at 922-24. Each of Taylor's claims of newly discovered evidence is sufficiently refuted by the trial and postconviction record. None of them fail for counsel's lack of diligence. For example, we find there has been no demonstration of ineffectiveness under Strickland as to counsel's alleged failure to elicit Dr. Miller's one in a million testimony at trial. Accordingly, we reject Taylor's claim that counsel's performance was deficient.