Legal Opinion
Ross v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided September 8, 2010No. SC07-2368PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Per curiam
Blaine Ross was convicted of the January 7, 2004, robbery and first-degree murders of his parents, Richard and Kathleen Ross. Ross, who was 21 at the time of the murders and living with his parents, appeals the judgments of conviction of robbery and first-degree murder and sentences of death. We have manda*407tory jurisdiction, See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.
After carefully reviewing the issues raised on appeal, we reverse the convictions and sentences of death because of the police conduct in interrogating Ross on January 9, 2004. Specifically, the police, over a period of several hours of…
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