Legal Opinion
Atkins v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided June 7, 1984No. 61851PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
452 So.2d 529 (1984)
Phillip ATKINS, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 61851.
Supreme Court of Florida.
June 7, 1984.
Rehearing Denied July 26, 1984.
Jack T. Edmund and Marshall Slaughter of Edmund & McDaniel, Bartow, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and William E. Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
2Per curiam
This case is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of a capital felony for which a sentence of death was imposed. Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping. This Court has jurisdiction of his appeal. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.
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3Cases cited18 opinions
- Payton v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Brown v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- United States v. WatsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Michigan v. DeFillippoSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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4Cited by13 opinions
- Hunter v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1995
- Phillip Alexander Atkins v. Harry K. SingletaryCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1992
- McKinney v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1991
- Atkins v. DuggerSupreme Court of Florida · 1989
- Kenneth R. Jackson v. State of FloridaSupreme Court of Florida · 2017
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