Legal Opinion
Rodgers v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided May 9, 2013No. SC11-2259PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Per curiam
Theodore Rodgers, Jr., appeals an order of the circuit court denying his motion to vacate his conviction of first-degree murder and his sentence of death filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. For the reasons expressed below, we affirm the circuit court’s order.
I. BACKGROUND
In 2003, Theodore Rodgers, Jr., was convicted of the 2001 first-degree murder of his wife, Teresa Henderson. On direct appeal, this Court set out the facts of the crime:
Theodore Rodgers, then sixty years old, was self-employed in Orlando, installing…
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