Murder For Pecuniary Gain

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• Anderson v. State
  18 So. 3d 501· Fla.· 2009-07-09 ·cited 72×
  Fred Anderson appeals the circuit court's denial of his rule 3.851 motion for postconviction relief and petitions for habeas corpus following his 1999 conviction and death sentence for murdering bank employee Heather Young during a robbery. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the
• Sonnie Boy Oats, Jr. v. State
  446 So. 2d 90· Fla.· 1984-02-23 ·cited 70×
  Sonnie Boy Oats Jr. appeals his conviction for first-degree murder and death sentence in the 1979 shooting death of a convenience store clerk during a robbery in Marion County, Florida. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the conviction but vacated and remanded the death sentence
• Washington v. State
  362 So. 2d 658· Fla.· 1978-09-07 ·cited 70×
  David Leroy Washington was convicted of three murders committed during a twelve-day period in September 1976 and received three death sentences. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed all convictions and sentences, rejecting Washington's constitutional and statutory challenges to the
• Clark v. State
  609 So. 2d 513· Fla.· 1992-10-22 ·cited 62×
  Ronald Wayne Clark was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the conviction but reduced the sentence to life imprisonment without parole for 25 years, finding that only one valid aggravating circumstance existed and the death
• Elam v. State
  636 So. 2d 1312· Fla.· 1994-04-07 ·cited 40×
  The Florida Supreme Court affirmed David Mueller Elam's convictions for first-degree murder and solicitation to commit murder but vacated his death sentence and remanded for imposition of a life sentence. The court found that three of four aggravating circumstances relied upon by
• Zeigler v. State
  580 So. 2d 127· Fla.· 1991-04-11 ·cited 37×
  Zeigler appeals his death sentence for first-degree murder of his wife and another man, arguing that the trial judge improperly found aggravating circumstances and failed to give adequate weight to mitigating evidence. The Florida Supreme Court affirms the death sentence, holding
• Gonzalez v. State
  786 So. 2d 559· Fla.· 2001-05-10 ·cited 18×
  Ricardo Gonzalez appeals his death sentence imposed following a resentencing hearing ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. The Court affirms the death penalty, finding the trial court properly evaluated mitigating evidence and that the sentence is proportional to similar capital
• Donte Jermaine Hall v. State
  87 So. 3d 667· Fla.· 2012-02-02 ·cited 13×
  Donte Hall appeals his conviction for first-degree murder and death sentence for killing Anthony Blunt during an armed robbery of a house party in 2006. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed Hall's convictions and death sentence, rejecting challenges to the heinous, atrocious, or cr
• Michael v. State
  437 So. 2d 138· Fla.· 1983-07-14 ·cited 12×
  John Michael was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for killing 83-year-old Fern Umble, who had named him sole beneficiary of her estate. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed both the conviction and death sentence, rejecting Michael's challenges to the admissib
• Robinson v. State
  702 So. 2d 213· Fla.· 1997-11-13 ·cited 7×
  Bobbie Lee Robinson was convicted of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder and sentenced to death. The Florida Supreme Court reversed his convictions and death sentence, ordering a new trial due to a confluence of extraordinary circumstances: the tri
• Alcegaire v. State
  326 So. 3d 656· Fla.· 2021-09-09 ·cited 1×
  Johnathan Alcegaire was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, burglary, conspiracy, robbery, and evidence tampering in connection with a 2016 triple homicide in Lakeland, Florida. He was sentenced to death for the three murders. On direc