STATE v. BASSETT

No. 89-2515.

557 So.2d 76 (1990)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Theodore A. BASSETT, Jr., Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

January 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawson Lamar, State Atty., and Paula C. Coffman, Asst. State Atty., Orlando, for petitioner.

No appearance, for respondent.


DAUKSCH, Judge.

The state seeks our review by certiorari the sentence of a circuit judge in a first degree murder case. The respondent was convicted of two first degree murder charges and the jury recommended the death penalty. The judge overrode the recommendation and sentenced respondent to life in prison. The state now seeks review of that sentence.

The right of the state to appeal a sentence was recently created by the statute which created the sentencing...

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