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Inside a packed courtroom on the top floor of the Hillsborough County Courthouse, about 20 members of Savannah Mathis’ family waited quietly. They donned shirts bearing the 21-year-old nursing student’s smiling face and carried life-size cardboard cutouts of her. Earlier this month, a jury found Vakarvery Scott guilty of first-degree murder in Mathis’ slaying. The verdict carries a mandatory .
The Tampa lawyer who recently filed to run against Hillsborough State Attorney Suzy Lopez now wants to debate her. Democrat Elizabeth Martinez Strauss sent a letter to Republican Lopez last week, inviting her to discuss “our differing viewpoints” at a public forum. Topics Strauss wants to include: what she called a “trial tax” that reduces sentences for defendants who enter pleas instead of .