Legal Opinion
Richard O. Rambaran v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 9, 2016No. 14-14242PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
Richard Rambaran is a Florida prisoner serving a life sentence after his convictions in 2008 for second degree murder, armed burglary of an occupied dwelling with battery, and trespass with battery but without a weapon. While his case was on direct appeal to Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal, some district courts of appeal certified to the Florida Supreme Court questions or conflicts in decisions involving the standard jury instruction on the crime of manslaughter by. act. That jury instruction had been given at Rambaran’s trial because the crime.of manslaughter…
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