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PHILLIPS v. STATE

No. 2D99-3734.

807 So.2d 713 (2002)

Joshua PHILLIPS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

February 6, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Deborah K. Brueckheimer, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Katherine V. Blanco, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

CASANUEVA, Judge.

Tried as an adult for the murder of eight-year-old Madelyn Rae Clifton, Joshua Phillips, fourteen years old at the time of the homicide, appeals from both his conviction for first-degree murder and his sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. We find that no harmful error occurred at trial and affirm his conviction. As for his sentence, Mr. Phillips' primary contention is that his chronological age renders his punishment cruel...

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