Legal Opinion
Dobbert v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 17, 1977No. 76-5306PublishedCited by 1,556 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
Petitioner was convicted of murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, child abuse, and child torture. The victims were his children. Under the Florida death penalty statute then in effect he was sentenced by the trial judge to death for the first-degree murder. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed, and we granted certiorari to consider whether changes in the Florida death penalty statutes subjected him to trial under an ex post facto law or denied him equal protection of the laws, and whether the significant amount of pretrial publicity concerning the crime deprived petitioner of…
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