Raymond M. Austin v. State of Florida

Approximately two months before his eighteenth birthday, Raymond Austin ab ducted, robbed, and murdered eighty-three-year-old Charles Soukup. Less than twenty-four hours later, Austin fired a gun at another unarmed person, attempting murder again but this time not succeeding. Austin was sentenced to concurrent terms of ninety years in prison for each offense against Mr. Soukup, all to run consecutively to a forty-five-year sentence imposed earlier in a separate case for the subsequent criminal act.

The judgment and sentences for the first criminal episode, involving armed kidnapping, armed…