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MATTHEWS v. STATE

Nos. Z-133, Z-166, Z-275.

336 So.2d 643 (1976)

Hawthorne Konrad MATTHEWS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. Billie Joe BROOKS, Sr., Appellant, v. State of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing denied September 9, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Shimek, Jr., of Shimek & McDaniel, Pensacola, for appellant.

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

SMITH, Judge.

An Escambia County jury found that appellants Matthews and Brooks committed extortion by verbal threats of bodily injury, in violation of § 836.05, F.S.,1 while leading nighttime demonstrations in February 1975 at the Escambia County jail in Pensacola. Over a period of more than three weeks, up to 200 black demonstrators protested the shooting of a young black man by deputy...

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