BOOKER v. STATE

Nos. 64517-64519.

441 So.2d 148 (1983)

Stephen Todd BOOKER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. Stephen Todd BOOKER, Petitioner, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Respondent. Stephen Todd BOOKER, Petitioner, v. Bob GRAHAM, Governor, Etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Coleman, Jr. and Marian E. Lindberg of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey S. Weiner of Weiner, Robbins, Tunkey & Ross, Miami, and Paul S. Rothstein of Rothstein & Skoro, Gainesville, for appellant/petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Lawrence Kaden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Art Wiedinger, Asst. Gen. Counsel to the Governor, Tallahassee, appellee/respondent.


ADKINS, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from an order of the circuit court of Alachua County denying appellant's motion to vacate and set aside judgment and sentence and stay execution and other related matters. We also have before us petitions for writs of habeas corpus and mandamus. The appellant has been sentenced to death for the offense of first-degree murder. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § (3)(b)(1), (7) and (9), Fla. Const.

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