Legal Opinion

Cave v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided September 21, 1995No. 82333PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

660 So.2d 705 (1995)

Alphonso CAVE, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 82333.

Supreme Court of Florida.

September 21, 1995.

Jeffrey H. Garland, Fort Pierce, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Sara D. Baggett, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

2Per curiam

We have on appeal the sentence of the trial court imposing the death penalty upon Alphonso Cave. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. We vacate Cave's sentence of death.

In April of 1982, Alphonso Cave and three accomplices robbed a convenience store and kidnapped and murdered Frances…

Also in this document: Dissent; Concurrence.

3Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Livingston v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1983
  4. People v. DabbCalifornia Supreme Court · 1948
  5. Bundy v. RuddSupreme Court of Florida · 1978

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4Cited by34 opinions

  1. Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Maxine Cohen LandoCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2005
  2. Alston v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1998
  3. Rimmer v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2002
  4. Lynch v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2009
  5. Parker v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2009

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