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Circuit & County Court

Senate Will Vote on Eliminating Need for Unanimous Juries in Death Recommendations

March 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, is sponsoring a bill that would revamp Florida's death-penalty laws. (Colin Hackley/NSF)

The Senate Rules Committee voted 15-4 to approve a bill (SB 450) that would allow death sentences to be imposed based on the recommendations of eight of 12 jurors — a standard that bill sponsor Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, described as being “the most aggressive of all 50 states.”

Judge Perkins Denies Further Hearings and Claim of ‘Manifest Injustice’ in Gaskin Death Penalty Case

March 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. (© FlaglerLive)

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins this morning in Bunnell denied the defense’s motion for an evidentiary hearing on  Tuesday, ending Gaskin’s last possible effort to prevent his killing. The state Supreme Court and a last-minute commutation by the governor are the only remaining possibilities, but they are beyond the remote.

Matanzas Aide Attacked by 17 Year Old Had Reported His Threats As Far Back as August

March 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Brendan Depa being led away at Matanzas High School after the Feb. 21 incident, in a capture from body cam footage.

Joan Naydich, the 58-year-old Matanzas High School paraprofessional attacked by one of her students on Feb. 21 had alerted the classroom teacher as far back as late August of the student’s aggression and belligerence, according to a petition for an injunction she filed at the end of February.

A Series of Frantic Hearings at Bunnell Courthouse Are Preceding State’s Killing of Louis Gaskin

March 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Louis Gaskin, right, who is to die by lethal injection on April 12, appeared by zoom from the state prison in Raiford for a court hearing in Bunnell before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. (© FlaglerLive)

Nearly half a dozen hearings are taking place at the Flagler County courthouse between this week and next in the case of Louis Gaskin, who is scheduled to be executed by the state on April 12. The hearings are last-minutes attempt either to delay or to annul the execution, but the likelihood of success is beyond the realm of hail Marys.

Janet Valentine, a Juror and Future Superintendent, Regrets Voting for Gaskin’s Death. Prosecutor Does Not.

March 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

John Tanner, still an attorney in private practice, seen at the podium here in a 2016 case, was for 16 years the State Attorney in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, and the prosecutor who tried the Louis Gaskin murder cases in 1990 before Circuit Judge Kim Hammond. (© FlaglerLive)

Janet Valentine, who would become Flagler school superintendent 20 years later, was one of the jurors who recommended the death of Louis Gaskin in 1990, a vote she now regrets. Gaskin is to be put to death in April. John Tanner, the State Attorney at the time, has no regrets for seeking the death penalty.

Louis Gaskin, Convicted for 2 Murders in R-Section in 1990, to Be 1st-Ever Execution of Flagler Resident

March 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Louis Gaskin marked his 56th birthday last week.

Louis Gaskin, a murderer known as the “Ninja Killer,” is set to be killed by lethal injection on April 12 for the 1989 murders of Robert Sturmfels, 56, and Georgette Sturmfels, 55, on Ripley Place in Palm Coast.

Former Matanzas High Student, 16, Charged as Adult in Alleged Sex Assault of Girl During Class

March 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Marshall Thomas appearing from a Duvall County juvenile jail by zoon on an overhead television screen in Circuit Judge Terence Perkins's courtroom this afternoon in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

When Marshall Thomas, 16, was arrested on charges of stealing guns and making written threats to kill in January, authorities did not disclose that he had months earlier been arrested on a sexual assault charge involving a 15-year-old student at Matanzas High School. Thomas has now been charged as an adult on all five charges from both incidents and faces up to 45 years in prison.

Judge Orders Mental Evaluation for Matanzas Student Who Assaulted Aide

March 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. (© FlaglerLive)

A judge has ordered a mental evaluation of 17-year-old Brendan Depa, the Matanzas High School student accused of attacking his paraprofessional. Court documents related to the order for the first time confirm that Depa has been treated for mental illness and is on various medication for psychological issues.

Palm Coast’s William McClean Faces Felony Drunk Boating Charge in Death of Thomas d’Aquila Last July

February 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

William S. McClean boating accident palm coast

William S. McClean, a 56-year-old resident of Crain Court in Palm Coast, was charged with operating a boat under the influence of alcohol, a second degree felony, in the boating death of Thomas d’Aquila last July on the Intracoastal Waterway. 

Already Serving Life, Carlos DuPree Is Convicted on Charges of Assaulting Jail Deputy

February 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Carlos DuPree was already serving a life term for home invasion robbery when he was sentenced this week to an additional five years for brutalizing a Flagler County Sheriff's corrections deputy at the county jail. (© FlaglerLive)

A jury on Wednesday found Carlos DuPree, 37, guilty of assaulting Flagler jail corrections deputy deputy Edward Wallace over a search of DuPree’s Koran in 2021, resulting in a five-year prison sentence in addition to a life term for home invasion that DuPree is already serving.

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