Legal Opinion
John Earl Bush v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 30, 1993No. 89-4051PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Per curiam
John Earl Bush, a Florida inmate, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. He filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition challenging both his conviction and his sentence. The district court denied relief, and Bush appeals. We affirm.
FACTS
On April 27, 1982, John Earl Bush and three other men abducted Frances Slater from the convenience store where she worked. Her body was found later that day, thirteen miles away. She had been stabbed in the abdomen and shot once in the back of her head at close range. The convenience store’s cash register and floor safe had been robbed of…
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