Legal Opinion
Robert Pernell McCloud v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided November 17, 2016No. SC12-2103PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Per curiam
This case is before the Court on appeal from a judgment of convictions of first-degree murder and sentences of death. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the convictions but reduce the sentences to life imprisonment.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE & FACTS
Robert McCloud appeals his convictions and sentences for the first-degree murders of Dustin Freeman and Tamiqua Taylor. During the afternoon of October 3, 2009, McCloud and Andre Brown were driving around the Malibu neighborhood of Orlando, Florida, when they ran into Joshua Bryson. The…
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