Legal Opinion

O'CALLAGHAN v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided February 10, 1983No. 60704PublishedCited by 45 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

429 So.2d 691 (1983)

John O'CALLAGHAN, a/K/a Jack McCarthy, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 60704.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 10, 1983.

Rehearing Denied April 27, 1983.

William B. Seidel of the Law Office of William B. Seidel, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Stewart J. Bellus and Russell S. Bohn, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

2Per curiam

Appellant, John O'Callaghan, was convicted of murder in the first degree in a joint trial with Walter Tucker, his codefendant, who was found guilty of second-degree murder. The trial judge imposed the death…

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3Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Schneble v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Clark v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1978
  4. Faison v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1983
  5. State v. HegstromSupreme Court of Florida · 1981

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4Cited by45 opinions

  1. Armstrong v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1994
  2. Crain v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2004
  3. Zack v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2005
  4. Bush v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1984
  5. Kearse v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1995

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