Legal Opinion

Ruffin v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided March 26, 1981No. 55684, 56741PublishedCited by 98 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

397 So.2d 277 (1981)

Mack C. RUFFIN, Jr., Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Nos. 55684, 56741.

Supreme Court of Florida.

March 26, 1981.

Rehearing Denied May 15, 1981.

Jack O. Johnson, Public Defender and Douglas A. Lockwood, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow and W.C. McLain, Spec. Asst. Public Defender, Fort Myers, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and William I. Munsey, Jr. and Charles Corces, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

2Per curiam

Mack C. Ruffin, Jr. appeals his convictions of murder in the first degree and sexual battery of Karol Hurst and his sentence of death. We have jurisdiction…

Also in this document: Dissent.

3Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1959
  3. Provence v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1976
  4. Elledge v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1977
  5. Peek v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1981

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4Cited by98 opinions

  1. Johnson v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  2. Hunter v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1995
  3. Heiney v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1984
  4. Craig v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1987
  5. Walls v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1994

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