Legal Opinion
O'CONNELL v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided November 27, 1985No. 64565PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
480 So.2d 1284 (1985)
Barry Gilbert O'CONNELL, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 64565.
Supreme Court of Florida.
November 27, 1985.
Rehearing Denied January 30, 1986.
Michael E. Allen, Public Defender and Steven L. Bolotin, Asst. Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Andrea Smith Hillyer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.
ADKINS, Justice.
This is a direct appeal from convictions of first-degree murder and a sentence of death. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.
O'Connell was convicted of two convenience…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Adams v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1959
- United States v. Larry Allen MyersCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
- United States v. Luther Amos BeahmCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1981
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3Cited by22 opinions
- State v. HurleyTennessee Supreme Court · 1994
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- Thessing v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2006
- Turner v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1988
- Rhodes v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1994
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