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    Terance Gerald Valentine - Florida




    Summary of Offense:

    Terance Valentine and his wife Livia Romero immigrated to the United States in 1975. The couple settled in New Orleans and adopted a child, Giovanna. After seeking a divorce from Valentine in 1986, Romero married Ferdinand Porche. Romero then relocated with her daughter and new husband to Tampa, Florida. Shortly after the move, Romero began receiving threatening phone calls from Valentine. On September 9, 1988, Ferdinand Porche returned home to meet his family. When Porche entered the house, Valentine shot him in the back, severing his spinal cord and rendering him paralyzed from the waist down. Valentine said to Porche, “This is my revenge.” Porche was forced to crawl into the bedroom where he saw his pregnant wife naked, bound and gagged, and his baby crying. Valentine then began to systematically beat and torture Porche, announcing, “I’m gonna kill you, but you’re gonna suffer.” Valentine then transported Porche and Romero to a remote location and shot them both. Livia Romero survived the attack and informed police that Valentine was the assailant. In the weeks following her release from the hospital, Romero began to receive calls from Valentine. With the help of police recording devices, Romero taped her conversations with Valentine, which subsequently led to his arrest.

    Valentine was resentenced to death in Hillsborough County on September 30, 1994.

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    The Florida Supreme Court affirmed Valentine’s sentence of death on 12/19/96.

    On 05/16/97, Valentine filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court that was denied on 10/16/97.

    On 05/28/98, Valentine filed a 3.850 Motion in the State Circuit Court. Amended 3.850 Motions were filed on 5/14/01. The motion was granted in part on 08/01/02 for an evidentiary hearing and denied in part the same day.

    On 08/03/05, Valentine filed a second amended motion in the State Circuit Court. On 10/16/06, he filed a third amended motion and then on 01/09/07, an order was issued denying the amendment to the 3.850 motion.

    On 07/31/08, Valentine filed a fourth amended motion in the Circuit Court. This motion was denied on 07/06/10.

    Valentine filed a 3.850 Appeal in the Florida Supreme Court on 07/27/10. This appeal is currently pending.

    Valentine filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in the Florida Supreme Court on 03/02/11. This petition is currently pending.

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    Costa Rica asks U.S. for clemency for death row prisoner

    Costa Rica asked the United States for clemency Tuesday for a Costa Rican on death row in Miami. Terance Valentine was convicted of murder in 1988 for killing Ferdinand Porche, the new husband of Valentine’s ex-wife, Livia Romero. Romero, who is also from Costa Rica, was attacked by Valentine as well.

    “We have sent an official note to the U.S. government requesting a change in the injunction. Costa Rica cannot endorse or remain silent before a death penalty sentence on a Costa Rican citizen,” Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Roverssi told Radio Reloj.

    Romero and Valentine married as teenagers in Costa Rica, and Romero filed for divorce in New Orleans in 1986, according to documents filed with the Supreme Court of Florida. She remarried Porche and moved to Tampa, where the couple began receiving threatening calls from Valentine. On Sept. 9, 1988, an armed Valentine forced his way into the couple’s home. He ushered Romero and Valentine into his car, then drove them to a remote area and shot them. Romero survived and immediately told police Valentine was her assailant.

    Valentine, 60, was arrested in February 1989 and tried three times; in 1994 he was handed down the death penalty.

    In a statement to Channel 7’s Telenoticas, Valentine said he was sentenced to death “due to racism and the lack of intelligence of the lawyers” who defended him.

    “I need the Costa Rican government to demand that there is a judgment made like God intended,” said Valentine, who appealed to the friendly relations between both countries.

    The prisoner lamented that Costa Rica’s diplomatic help in Miami has “abandoned” him, but he also recognized that this was due to a lack of resources.

    “We do not have the financial resources, and that is the problem,” Lorena Sánchez, Costa Rican consul in Miami, told Channel 7.

    http://www.ticotimes.net/Current-Edi...bruary-22-2012

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    TERANCE VALENTINE v STATE OF FLORIDA

    In today's opinions, the Florida Supreme Court DENIED Valentine's motion to vacate his conviction for first-degree murder and sentence of death filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. The court also DENIED his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
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    On January 3, 2013, Valentine filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/flo...v00030/279384/

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    Costa Rica insists that U.S. not execute its citizen convicted of brutal murder

    President Laura Chinchilla said yesterday that Costa Rica insists that the United States not execute Terence Valentine, a Costa Rican citizen convicted of murder and kidnapping.

    While admitting that the possibilities of changing Valentine’s fate are slim, Chinchilla said her government would continue to insist to the U.S. State Department that the man not be executed, saying it is difficult to accept that a Costa Rican citizen face a sentence “that denies basic rights and represents a remant of the law of retaliation.”

    Valentine has spent 19 years on death row in a prison in Raiford, Florida.

    “We do not justify what he did or ask for his acquittal, but ask that he not face a penalty which degrades the individual, society and the entire state,” President Laura Chinchilla said.

    “The death penalty is a shame and absurd. When it comes time to apply the punishment, the person killed may be very different from the person who committed the act,” Chinchilla added.

    Costa Rica submitted a petition for leniency last year in Washington but never received a response.

    Background

    Livia Romero married Terrence Valentine while she was a teenager in Costa Rica and the couple immigrated to the United States in 1975, settled in New Orleans, and adopted a child.

    After seeking to divorce Valentine in 1986, Romero married Ferdinand Porche and the family moved to Tampa, where they began receiving telephoned threats from Valentine.

    According to testimony by Romero, On September 9, 1988, Ferdinand Porche returned to his home in the mid-afternoon expecting to meet his pregnant wife and small child. Instead he was greeted by a bullet in the back that severed his spinal cord and rendered him paralyzed from the waist down.

    Mr. Porche was then confronted by Mr. Valentine who announced, “This is my revenge.”

    Mr. Porche was forced to crawl into a bedroom where he found his wife nude, bound, and gagged and his baby crying and covered in blood. Mr. Valentine then pistol-whipped Mr. Porche. Mr. Porche’s face was lacerated, his jaw was broken, and several teeth were knocked out.

    According to the medical examiner there were at least three separate blows to Mr. Porche’s face.

    After administering this beating Mr. Valentine made his purpose clear, announcing, “I’m going to kill you, but you’re going to suffer. This is not going to be easy.” Further tortuous acts included stabbing Mr. Porche in the buttocks – the knife stopping only because it struck bone, kicking Mr. Porche in the chest, and dragging him after he was bound hand and foot with baling wire.

    Valentine then loaded both Porche and Romero into a vehicle, drove them to a remote area, and shot them, killing Porche.

    Romero survived and immediately told police Valentine was her assailant.

    Several weeks after being released from the hospital, Romero began receiving telephone calls from Valentine, which she taped using a telephone and recorder supplied by police. Valentine was eventually arrested and charged with armed burglary, [two counts of] kidnapping, grand theft, first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.

    Valentine was convicted of the murder of Porche and the kidnapping of Romero in 1994.

    http://insidecostarica.com/2013/08/1...brutal-murder/
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    I attended a Spanish language course in Costa Rica many years ago. I loved the grilled chicken there. Scrumptious!

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    Laura the Chinchilla

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    It's funny that these foreign countries always start crying about convicted MURDERERS when one of their 'citizens' has an execution date set or are within proximity of exhausting their final appeals in our country. However, when it's an American death row inmate, they have absolutely no opinion whatsoever or the atmosphere is relatively quiet. Thus, it just goes to show then, logically, that they merely hate America and our sense of justice. Just take a look at when Humberto Leal and Manuel Valle were executed in 2011 - crying and screaming about convicted murderers. Ha!

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