Legal Opinion

Smith v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided November 12, 1981No. 55961PublishedCited by 82 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

407 So.2d 894 (1981)

Jimmy Lee SMITH, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 55961.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 12, 1981.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1982.

Michael M. Corin and John D.C. Newton, II, Asst. Public Defenders, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.

ADKINS, Justice.

Appellant, Jimmy Lee Smith, was convicted of the first-degree murders of Bonnie Ward and her twelve-year-old daughter, Donna Strickland. The trial judge imposed the death sentence in accordance with the jury's advisory sentence…

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2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  3. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  4. State v. DixonSupreme Court of Florida · 1973
  5. Sims v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967

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3Cited by82 opinions

  1. State v. RoseSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1988
  2. Sireci v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  3. Taylor v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1994
  4. Pope v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1983
  5. Francis v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2001

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