SNIPES v. STATE

No. 90,413.

733 So.2d 1000 (1999)

David Paul SNIPES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 22, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Deborah K. Brueckheimer, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, Florida, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Carol M. Dittmar, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, Florida, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

We have on appeal the judgment and sentence of the trial court imposing the death penalty upon David Paul Snipes for first-degree murder. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. For the reasons expressed, we affirm the conviction for first-degree murder, but we vacate the sentence of death and remand for the imposition of a life sentence.

The facts of this case are as follows. Snipes and John Saladino were charged with the first...

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