Legal Opinion

Jenkins v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided September 24, 2008No. 4D08-79PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

990 So.2d 702 (2008)

Waymon JENKINS, Petitioner,

v.

STATE of Florida, Respondent.

No. 4D08-79.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 24, 2008.

Waymon Jenkins, Blountstown, pro se.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Joseph A. Tringali, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for respondent.

KLEIN, J.

Petitioner was convicted of manslaughter, and his appeal was affirmed. He alleges in his petition for writ of habeas corpus that his appellate counsel was ineffective, because counsel failed to argue on appeal that the trial court erred in not instructing the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Rutherford v. MooreSupreme Court of Florida · 2000
  2. State v. LucasSupreme Court of Florida · 1994
  3. Johnson v. WainwrightSupreme Court of Florida · 1986
  4. Lee v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2007
  5. Franco v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2005

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Burford v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2012

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