Legal Opinion

Cooper v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided July 8, 1976No. 45966PublishedCited by 161 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

336 So.2d 1133 (1976)

Vernon Ray COOPER, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 45966.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 8, 1976.

Rehearing Denied September 28, 1976.

Richard W. Ervin, III, Public Defender, and Judith J. Dougherty, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Raymond L. Marky, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

2Per curiam

Vernon Cooper was convicted of the robbery of a grocery store in Pensacola and the first degree murder of Pensacola Deputy Sheriff Charles Wilkerson. He was sentenced to death by the trial judge following the jury's advisory sentence of death. We have…

3Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Lego v. TwomeySupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. Murphy v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  5. Richardson v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1971

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4Cited by161 opinions

  1. Hitchcock v. DuggerSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  2. People v. BrownCalifornia Supreme Court · 1985
  3. John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender RehabilitationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
  4. Bell v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1978
  5. Charles William Proffitt v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender RehabilitationCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982

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