Legal Opinion
Douglas v. Wainwright
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 19, 1983No. 81-5927PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
Howard Virgil Lee Douglas was convicted by a Florida state court of murder in the first degree. In the second phase of. a bifurcated trial, the jury unanimously recommended life imprisonment, rejecting imposition of the death penalty. The trial judge, however, found that the murder was “especially heinous, atrocious and cruel,” that “no evidence of mitigating circumstances was produced,” and imposed the death penalty. The conviction was affirmed by the Florida Supreme Court in Douglas v. State, 328 So.2d 18 (Fla.) (Douglas I), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 871, 97 S.Ct. 185,…
2Cases cited107 opinions
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States v. FradySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by75 opinions
- Waller v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- United States v. Arnold Sherlock and Ronald CharleyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1992
- Borden v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2011
- United States v. Robert P. Deluca, Sr., United States of America v. Gerard T. Ouimette, United States of America v. Gerard T. OuimetteCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1998
- Raleigh Porter v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1986
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