Legal Opinion

Porter v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided June 14, 1990No. 72301PublishedCited by 188 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

564 So.2d 1060 (1990)

George PORTER, Jr., Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 72301.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 14, 1990.

Rehearing Denied September 4, 1990.

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Michael S. Becker, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Mark C. Menser, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.

2Per curiam

George Porter, Jr., appeals his sentence of death and related criminal convictions.[1] We affirm.

Porter elected to represent himself, with the assistance of standby counsel, when he went on trial in November 1987 on two counts…

Also in this document: Concurrence · McDONALD; Concurring in part, dissenting in part; Concurrence · Kogan.

3Cases cited45 opinions

  1. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Caldwell v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  3. Zant v. StephensSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  4. Proffitt v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  5. United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. ShaughnessySupreme Court of the United States · 1954

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4Cited by188 opinions

  1. Porter v. McCollumSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  2. Sochor v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  3. Connor v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2001
  4. Urbin v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1998
  5. Terry v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1996

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