Legal Opinion
Tafero v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided November 21, 1984No. 66156PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
459 So.2d 1034 (1984)
Jessie Joseph TAFERO, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 66156.
Supreme Court of Florida.
November 21, 1984.
Marc Cooper and Sharon L. Wolfe of Greene & Cooper, Miami, and Geoffrey C. Fleck of Weiner, Robbins, Tunkey & Ross, Miami, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Joy B. Shearer and Penny H. Brill, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.
2Per curiam
A jury convicted Tafero of two counts of first-degree murder, the trial court sentenced him to death for each homicide, and this Court affirmed the convictions and sentences. Tafero v. State, 403 So.2d 355 (Fla.…
3Cases cited19 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Zant v. StephensSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Enmund v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Proffitt v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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4Cited by26 opinions
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- Aubrey Dennis Adams, Jr. v. Richard L. Dugger, Robert ButterworthCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
- Jessie Joseph Tafero v. Louie L. WainwrightCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1986
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