Legal Opinion

Melendez v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided November 12, 1992No. 75081PublishedCited by 60 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

612 So.2d 1366 (1992)

Juan Roberto MELENDEZ, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 75081.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 12, 1992.

Rehearing Denied February 17, 1993.

Larry Helm Spalding, Capital Collateral Representative; Gail E. Anderson, Asst. CCR and Harun Shabazz, Staff Atty., Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Candance M. Sunderland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

2Per curiam

The appellant, Juan Roberto Melendez, was convicted of first-degree murder and armed robbery for which he received a death sentence and…

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3Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Caldwell v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  4. State v. DiGuilioSupreme Court of Florida · 1986
  5. Proffitt v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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4Cited by60 opinions

  1. Griffin v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2004
  2. Schoenwetter v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2010
  3. Arbelaez v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2005
  4. Hitchcock v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2008
  5. Simmons v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2012

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