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HAWTHORNE v. STATE

No. AN-435.

470 So.2d 770 (1985)

Joyce Bernice HAWTHORNE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 7, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo A. Thomas, of Levin, Warfield, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes & Mitchell, P.A., Pensacola, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Andrew Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.

Kit Kinports, Donald N. Bersoff and Bruce J. Ennis, of Ennis, Friedman, Bersoff & Ewing, Washington, D.C.; and Robert Augustus Harper, Jr., Tallahassee, for amicus curiae American Psychological Ass'n.

WIGGINTON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of manslaughter arising from Joyce Hawthorne's third trial for the murder of her husband. Her first conviction, for first degree murder, was reversed by this Court in Hawthorne v. State, 377 So.2d 780 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979) (Hawthorne I). The opinion in that case contains an adequate presentation of the facts surrounding the shooting of appellant's husband, Aubrey...

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