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STATE v. DIXON

Nos. 43521, 43460, 43478 and 43473.

283 So.2d 1 (1973)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Carl DIXON et al., Appellees. STATE of Florida, Plaintiff, v. Samuel D. SETSER, Defendant. STATE of Florida, Plaintiff, v. Fred Elson HUNTER and James Calvin Moore, Defendant. STATE of Florida, Plaintiff, v. Richard L. SHEPPARD, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied October 10, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Raymond L. Marky and George R. Georgieff, Asst. Atty. Gens., for appellant and plaintiff.

Phillip A. Hubbart, Public Defender, Lewis S. Kimler and Bennett H. Brummer, Asst. Public Defenders, for appellee-Dixon.

Leonard R. McMillen, of Stephens & McMillen, Miami, for appellee-Lester.

Ronald S. Guralnick, of Guralnick & Gellman, Miami, for appellee-Sawyer.

Louis R. Bowen, Jr. and Phillip A. Hubbart, Public Defenders, Warren H. Horton, Lewis S. Kimler and Bennett H. Brummer, Asst. Public Defenders, for defendant-Setser.

Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, and Charles C. Adams, Asst. Public Defender, for defendant-Hunter.

Elliot Zisser, of Zisser & Zisser, Jacksonville, for defendant-Moore.

Philip Carlton, Jr., Miami, for defendant-Sheppard.

Tobias Simon, Miami, Jack Greenberg, Jack H. Himmelstein, Elaine R. Jones, Lynn Walker, New York City, Anthony G. Amsterdam, Stanford, Cal., for amicus curiae N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

James T. Russell, Clearwater, and David H. Bludworth, West Palm Beach, for amicus curiae, Florida Pros. Attys. Ass'n, Inc.

ADKINS, Justice.

These cases pose several questions arising from the possibility of the imposition of the penalty of death pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 921.141, F.S.A., which became effective December 8, 1972.

Four cases are here consolidated on the issue of the constitutionality of the capital punishment statutes of the State of Florida. The case of State v. Setser is before this Court on the basis of a certified question from the Circuit Court of Dade County...

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