Pinder v. State

On November 23, 2016, this Court issued an Opinion denying Andre Pinder’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Pinder is serving a prison sentence of life plus forty years after his conviction, in 1991, of armed burglary, two counts of aggravated battery, two counts of aggravated assault, and one count of simple assault.

The incident that led to Pinder’s arrest and conviction occurred on May 17, 1989. After members of a church located in Miami, Florida called police to report theft and vandalism to parked cars outside the church, and after the police investigating those crimes had departed,…