That strong wind you feel blowing from the north isn't an approaching cold front.
It's the exhale of John Marek, who had his date with death postponed by the Florida Supreme Court on Monday.
Marek, 47, was convicted of killing a woman decades ago and was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday. But frantic, last-ditch efforts by his attorney to get an appeal in the case seems to have finally paid dividends.
Marek and a co-defendant, Raymond Wigley, were convicted in the death of Adella Simmons, who was raped and strangled on Dania Beach in 1983. Wigley received a life sentence, while Marek got the death penalty.
With death on his doorstep, Marek claims it was Wigley who did the strangling, not him.
Last week, Marek's attorney presented evidence in a Broward courtroom that three former cell mates claimed he bragged about choking the life out of Simmons. The judge denied postponing Marek's date with lethal needle, but the high court stepped in Monday with a "Not so fast, my friend."
Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for May 20.
