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    Tundidor sentenced to death for murder of Nova professor

    By Rafael Olmeda
    The Sun Sentinel

    Randy W. Tundidor was sentenced to death Friday for the murder of his landlord, Nova Southeastern University professor Joseph Morrissey.

    Broward Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato ordered the death sentence after reciting the facts of the case, outlining the "excruciating mental anguish" and physical pain suffered by the victim as he knew he was about to be brutally stabbed to death at Tundidor's hands.

    Tundidor, 47, was found guilty in April 2012, and the same jury that convicted him unanimously recommended the death sentence six months later. But a string of complications and challenges delayed sentencing until Friday.

    Tundidor continues to profess his innocence. His son, Randy H. Tundidor, pleaded guilty to his role in the crime and testified against his father. The younger Tundidor was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the crime.

    The victim's wife, Linda Kay Morrissey, and the couple's son, Patrick, were also in the courtroom.

    Tundidor was also sentenced to four life sentences for kidnapping Morrissey and his wife, as well as for two counts of armed robbery.

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    Randy W. Tundidor v The State of Florida

    In today's opinions, the Florida Supreme Court VACATED Tundidor's two attempted felony murder convictions denied all other claims raised on appeal, and AFFIRMED conviction and sentence of death.
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    Death sentence upheld in murder of Nova Southeastern professor

    Randy W. Tundidor, who was sentenced to death for the 2010 murder of his landlord, Joseph Morrissey, will not be heading back to Broward for a new sentencing hearing, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

    Tundidor, 50, was asking the court for a new sentencing hearing in light of last year’s upheaval of Florida’s death penalty law. In March, the legislature passed a new law mandating a jury’s unanimous recommendation to sentence a convicted killer to death.

    At the time Tundidor was convicted, the only legal requirement for capital punishment was a majority vote, and the jury’s role was advisory — a judge could have imposed the death penalty even if the jury rejected it. But the jury in Tundidor’s case was unanimous after hearing details of Morrissey’s murder.

    Morrissey had begun the process of evicting Tundidor and his family from a Plantation townhouse. Tundidor and his son, Randy H. Tundidor (referred to as “Junior” in Thursday’s Florida Supreme Court decision), broke into Morrissey’s home, kidnapped Morrissey and his wife and forced them to withdraw money from an ATM while holding their son hostage, according to trial testimony. Though Morrissey pleaded for his life, the elder Tundidor stabbed him to death, then set the Morrissey home on fire with Morrissey’s wife and son still inside it.

    Tundidor's son pleaded guilty and testified against his father, ultimately getting sentenced to 40 years in prison.

    For the sentencing phase of his trial, Tundidor did not allow his lawyers to present mitigating circumstances, facts about his past that would lead a jury to determine that although he committed the murder, he did not deserve to die for it. Defense lawyer Richard Rosenbaum, who handled the penalty phase of the elder Tundidor’s trial, said he would have given his client different advice if he knew that a jury had to be unanimous for a death sentence to be valid.

    “Convincing seven people to spare his life is much more challenging than convincing one person,” Rosenbaum said.

    The Supreme Court ruled that because the jury was unanimous, it would have made no difference if a unanimous vote was required. One of the seven justices, Peggy Quince, disagreed, arguing that there is no way to tell that the jury was unanimous about each of the aggravating factors used to argue for death.

    Rosenbaum said his involvement in the case is now done. A new lawyer will be able to argue that Tundidor’s previous lawyers were ineffective and raise new challenges to try to save Tundidor’s life.

    “I’m grateful that after the court weighed the evidence in light of the circumstances surrounding the law, the Morrissey family will not have to be dragged through this trauma again,” said Assistant State Attorney Tom Coleman, who prosecuted the case.

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/br...427-story.html
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Middleton's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Florida
    Case Numbers: (SC14-2276)
    Decision Date: April 27, 2017
    Rehearing Denied: June 28, 2017

    Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor dissented.
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    The FSC granted his motion to reassign his case to a different judge.

    https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/co...c2022-1732.pdf
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