Legal Opinion

Lopez v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided December 22, 1988No. 68494PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

536 So.2d 226 (1988)

Eduardo LOPEZ, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 68494.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 22, 1988.

Michael B. Chavies, Miami, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Richard L. Kaplan, Capital Collateral Coordinator, Miami, for appellee.

2Per curiam

Lopez appeals his sentence of death imposed after the trial court adjudicated him guilty of first-degree murder.[1] We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(1) of the state constitution. We affirm both the conviction and the death sentence.

In late January 1983 Lopez and two accomplices broke into a home…

3Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Drope v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. Riley v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1978
  3. Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1979
  4. Stano v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1984
  5. Fitzgerald v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983

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4Cited by34 opinions

  1. Porter v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1990
  2. State v. MellonTennessee Supreme Court · 2003
  3. Koenig v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1992
  4. Robinson v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1999
  5. State v. PartlowSupreme Court of Florida · 2003

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