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TROTTER v. STATE

No. 70714.

576 So.2d 691 (1990)

Melvin TROTTER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied April 4, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender and Douglas S. Connor, Asst. Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and David R. Gemmer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

SHAW, Chief Justice.

Melvin Trotter appeals his conviction for first-degree murder and sentence of death, imposed in accordance with the jury's recommendation.1 We affirm the conviction, reverse the sentence, and remand for resentencing.

On June 16, 1986, a truck driver went into Langford's grocery in Palmetto, Florida, and found the seventy-year-old owner, Virgie Langford, bleeding on the floor in the back of the store. She had...

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