Legal Opinion
Donald Otis Williams v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided January 19, 2017No. SC14-814Published
1Opinion of the Court
Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC14-814 ____________ DONALD OTIS WILLIAMS, Appellant, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. [January 19, 2017] PER CURIAM. Donald Otis Williams, who was fifty years old at the time of the crime, was convicted of the 2010 kidnapping, robbery, and first-degree murder of eighty-one- year-old Janet Patrick. A jury recommended that Williams be sentenced to death for the murder by a vote of nine to three, and the trial court, after concluding that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating circumstances, imposed the death penalty. Williams appeals his…
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