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BRANCH v. STATE

No. 83805.

685 So.2d 1250 (1996)

Eric Scott BRANCH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied January 8, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender and David A. Davis, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Richard B. Martell, Chief, Capital Appeals, Tallahassee, for appellee.

SHAW, Justice.

We have on appeal the judgment and sentence of the trial court imposing the death penalty on Eric Scott Branch. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. We affirm.

Eric Branch was wanted by police in Indiana and because the car he was driving, a Pontiac, could be traced to him, he decided to steal a car from the campus of the University of West Florida in Pensacola. When Susan Morris, a young college student, approached her...

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