Legal Opinion
Hodges v. Attorney General, State of Fla.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 9, 2007No. 07-11943PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
In 1986 Betty Ricks, a twenty-year-old convenience store clerk, filed a criminal complaint against George Michael Hodges charging him with indecent exposure. After his other efforts to dissuade her from prosecuting him failed, Hodges shot Ms. Ricks twice in the head and neck with a rifle, killing her. That saved Hodges from the indecent exposure charge, a misdemeanor, but it landed him on Florida’s death row where he has been for the last eighteen years.
More factual details and the procedural history involving Hodges’ conviction for first degree murder and death sentence…
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