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RUFFIN v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 65117.

461 So.2d 109 (1984)

Mack RUFFIN, Jr., Petitioner, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation, and Richard Dugger, Superintendent, Florida State Prison at Starke, Florida, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 20, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Asa D. Sokolow, Edward S. Kornreich, Richard L. Claman, Regina Harrison, Susan L. Arinaga and Naomi G. Litvin, New York City, and Joyce Davis, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and William I. Munsey, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for respondents.

ALDERMAN, Justice.

Mack Ruffin has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging that he was denied effective assistance of appellate counsel. We deny this petition.

Ruffin was convicted and sentenced to death for the first-degree murder of Karol Hurst who was twenty-one years old and seven months pregnant at the time she was murdered. Ruffin and his accomplice abducted her from a Pantry Pride parking lot,...

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