& SC12-2349 Norman Blake Mckenzie v. State of Florida and Norman Blake Mckenzie v. Timothy H. Cannon

Summary

The court affirmed the summary denial of McKenzie’s initial postconviction motion and denied his habeas petition. It held that his ineffective-assistance, mental-health, compulsory-process, access-to-courts, prosecutorial-misconduct, interrogation-recording, and presentence-investigation claims were procedurally barred, conclusively refuted by the record, waived, or failed on the merits because McKenzie knowingly and voluntarily represented himself and chose not to present the asserted evidence. The court also held that mental illness alone does not categorically bar execution.