Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided June 12, 1980No. 50666PublishedCited by 53 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

386 So.2d 538 (1980)

Clifford WILLIAMS, Jr., Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 50666.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 12, 1980.

Rehearing Denied August 26, 1980.

Margaret Good, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Patti L. Englander, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.

2Per curiam

Appellant Clifford Williams, Jr. was convicted of murder in the first degree and attempted murder in the first degree. The trial judge, choosing not to follow the jury's recommendation of life imprisonment, imposed a sentence of death for the murder and a sentence of thirty…

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

3Cases cited26 opinions

  1. State v. DixonSupreme Court of Florida · 1973
  2. Tedder v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1975
  3. Provence v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1976
  4. Cooper v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1976
  5. Hogge v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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4Cited by53 opinions

  1. Barclay v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Charles William Proffitt v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender RehabilitationCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
  3. Ford v. StricklandCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
  4. Swafford v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1988
  5. Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1983

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