Legal Opinion
Williams v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided February 26, 2016No. 2D15-2430PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACK, Judge.
Curtis Williams appeals the summary denial of his third motion for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. In his motion, as in at least one prior postconviction motion, Williams argued that his fifty-year sentence with a twenty-year minimum mandatory constitutes a de facto life sentence and violates Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010), pursuant to the Florida Supreme Court’s holdings in Gridine v. State, 175 So.3d 672 (Fla.2015), and Henry v. State, 175 So.3d 675 (Fla.2015).
Williams was convicted of…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
- Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
- Henry v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2015
- Rebecca Lee Falcon v. State of FloridaSupreme Court of Florida · 2015
- Thomas v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2011
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