Whoah .. I missed this whole interaction Monday between Judge Eaton, Judge Perry and Mason ... will definitely be re-watching the hearing ...
From your links:
O.H. "Bill" Eaton Jr., the 18th Judicial Circuit judge who ordered a new trial for convicted murderer Joseph "Crazy Joe" Spaziano and later cleared the way for Florida's first lethal-injection execution, retired Friday after 24 years on the bench.
Eaton, 67, of Sanford, became a
nationally recognized expert on the death penalty and taught other judges from across the country how to try those cases
Also, interesting are some of his published articles:
Conducting the Penalty Phase of a Capital Case, Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies, 2006
Conducting the Penalty Phase of a Capital Case, National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada 2006
Capital Punishment: An Examination of Current Issues and Trends and How These Developments May Impact the Death Penalty in Florida, 34 Stetson L. R. 9 (Fall 2004)
Discovery of Public Records In Capital Cases, The Florida Bar Journal, April, 2002