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Professionalism: Helping to Overcome Unjust Sentencing and Discrimination in Death Penalty Litigation

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Professionalism and Unjust Sentencing in Death Penalty Litigation
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Ms. Ita M. Neymotin’s article “Professionalism: Helping to Overcome Unjust Sentencing and Discrimination in Death Penalty Litigation” was published in The Professional, Volume XVIII, No. 1, Spring 2021, a publication of the Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism of The Florida Bar.

In the article, Ms. Neymotin writes about professionalism in death penalty litigation and about her family’s experience of the Soviet justice system. Her great-grandfather, Samuel Neymotin, was executed in 1937 and exonerated in 1957; her father, Dr. Evsey Neymotin, was a refusenik from 1974 to 1979.

By Ita M. Neymotin, Regional Counsel Second District Court of Appeal, Chair of the Florida Bar Standing Committee on Professionalism

Chris Boldt
Chris Boldt, Homicide Division Managing Attorney for The Office of Criminal Conflict & Civil Regional Counsel, Second District Court of Appeal
Byron Hileman
Byron Hileman, Homicide Chief for The Office of Criminal Conflict & Civil Regional Counsel, Second District Court of Appeal
Ita M. Neymotin
Ita M. Neymotin, Regional Counsel for The Office of Criminal Conflict & Civil Regional Counsel, Second District Court of Appeal, & Chair of The Florida Bar Standing Committee on Professionalism
Honorable Brian Haas
Honorable Brian Haas, State Attorney for the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Florida
Honorable Howard ‘Rex’ Dimmig
Honorable Howard ‘Rex’ Dimmig, Public Defender for the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Florida
Dr. Evsey Neymotin
Dr. Evsey Neymotin: Dean of Kazakh State University. Refusenik 1974-1979.
Samuel Neymotin
Samuel Neymotin: Executed on August 29th, 1937 – USSR. Exonerated and sentence commuted on August 19th, 1957.

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References

  • Asay v. State, 210 So. 3d 1 (Fla. 2016)
  • Auslen, M., & Clark, K. (2016, December 22). Florida Supreme Court: More Than 200 Prisoners Unconstitutionally Sentenced to Death May Get New Sentencing Hearing. Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/6636
  • “Death Penalty Information Center – State by State.” Death Penalty Information Center, 2021, deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/state-by-state.
  • Dieter, R. C., Esq., Executive Director, 1994, Millions Misspent: What Politicians Don’t Say About the High Costs of the Death Penalty.
  • Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.112
  • Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972)
  • Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976)
  • Hurst v. State, 147 So. 3d 435 (2015)
  • Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016)
  • Johnson, A. D. (2001). The Illusory Death Penalty: Why America’s Death Penalty Process Fails to Support the Economic Theories of Criminal Sanctions and Deterrence. Hastings Law Journal, 52(5), 3rd ser., 1101-1130. Retrieved February 13, 2019, from https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3455&context=hastings_law_journal.
  • “Oath of Admission to The Florida Bar.” The Florida Bar, 2011, www.floridabar.org/prof/presources/oath-of-admission-to-the-florida-bar/.
  • McLaughlin, J. (2014). THE PRICE OF JUSTICE: INTEREST-CONVERGENCE, COST, AND THE ANTI-DEATH PENALTY MOVEMENT. Northwestern University Law Review, 108(2), 675-710. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.fgcu.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.fgcu.edu/docview/1528366179?accountid=10919
  • Neymotin, E. (2017). Hunted by The Hammer and Sickle. Fort Myers, FL: CreateSpace.
  • Neymotin, I. M. “A Case Study on the Rising Cost of Death Penalty Cases.” Florida Gulf Coast University, 2019.
  • Neymotin, I. M., Neymotin, F. “Minimizing the ‘Price’ of the Death Penalty in Florida.” The Empirical Economics Letters, vol. 18, no. 10, Oct. 2019, pp. 1057–1061.
  • Neymotin, Y. (2018). The Story of My Life. Fort Myers, FL: CreateSpace.
  • State v. Poole, 292 So.3d 694 (Fla. Jan. 23, 2020)
  • Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002)
  • U.S. Const. amend. VIII.
  • U.S. Const. amend. XIV.

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