Legal Opinion
Smith v. Secretary, Dept. of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 30, 2009No. 07-14173PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
During an aborted robbery attempt cab driver Jeffrey Songer was shot in the back and died in the street in St. Petersburg, Florida. It happened after midnight on March 21, 1983. Eight months later Derrick Tyrone Smith was convicted for Songer’s murder and sentenced to death. The Florida Supreme Court reversed that con viction and ordered a new trial because of two constitutional violations in the first trial. Smith v. State, 492 So.2d 1063, 1067 (Fla.1986); see Smith v. State, 641 So.2d 1319, 1320 n. 1 (Fla.1994) (“This Court reversed Smith’s conviction and sentence at…
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