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| Murder trial for man who killed cellmate delayed after newspaper report |
| By bradenton.com- Julie K. Brown |
| Published: 01/13/2015 |
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The capital murder trial of an inmate who brutally murdered his cellmate at the Panhandle’s Santa Rosa Correctional Institution was delayed Monday, one day after the Miami Herald published a story that raised questions about how the Florida Department of Corrections handled the investigation. A judge in Pensacola granted an uncontested motion by the defense to postpone the trial, which was set to start Monday. Both the defense and the prosecution were caught by surprise on the eve of the trial by information that was reported by the newspaper. In a letter on file with the court, the defendant, Shawn Rogers, 34, confessed to killing 24-year-old Ricky Martin, who was beaten senseless within hours of being bunked with Rogers at Santa Rosa on March 30, 2012. In the letter, the lifer with a history of abusing other inmates calls himself one of the most vicious and violent prisoners in Florida. Read More. |
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