Legal Opinion

Stevens v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided September 14, 1982No. 57738PublishedCited by 44 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

419 So.2d 1058 (1982)

Rufus Eugene STEVENS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 57738.

Supreme Court of Florida.

September 14, 1982.

John R. Forbes, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Raymond L. Marky, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.

2Per curiam

This cause is before the Court on appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the Fourth Judicial Circuit in and for Duval County. The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree. After receiving the jury's recommendation of a sentence of life imprisonment, the trial court sentenced appellant to death. This Court has…

Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part; Concurrence.

3Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Harris v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. Dobbert v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Oregon v. HassSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  5. State v. DixonSupreme Court of Florida · 1973

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4Cited by44 opinions

  1. Craig v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1987
  2. Bundy v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1985
  3. Bush v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1984
  4. Henyard v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1996
  5. Aubrey Dennis Adams v. Louie L. Wainwright, and Jim SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985

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