Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida _____________ No. SC14-1442 _____________ ARTHUR O’DERRELL FRANKLIN, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. November 8, 2018 PER CURIAM. At the age of 17, Arthur O’Derrell Franklin committed a series of brutal crimes against women. In each case, the female victim testified that Franklin violently attacked her, kidnapped her, drove her to a secluded area and brutally battered, raped, and robbed her while evidencing an extraordinary cruelty and a perverse enjoyment of the suffering he was inflicting. In one case, “the physician who performed the sexual assault…