Legal Opinion
Anderson v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided July 9, 2009No. SC07-648, SC08-644PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Per curiam
Fred Anderson, Jr., appeals an order of the circuit court denying his motion to vacate his conviction of first-degree murder and sentence of death filed under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851. He also petitions this Court for a writ of habe-as corpus. 1 For the reasons explained below, we affirm the circuit court’s order denying Anderson’s motion for postconviction relief, and we deny Anderson’s petition for writ of habeas corpus.
OVERVIEW
Anderson was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of Heather Young. During a bank robbery, Anderson shot Young several times and…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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- Freeman v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2000
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