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HODGES v. ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF FLA.

No. 07-11943.

506 F.3d 1337 (2007)

George Michael HODGES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF FLORIDA, Secretary, Department of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 9, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda McDermott (Court-Appointed), McClain & McDermott, P.A., Wilton Manors, FL, for Hodges.

Katherine Vickers Blanco, Tampa, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before ANDERSON, CARNES and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.

CARNES, Circuit Judge:

In 1986 Betty Ricks, a twenty-year-old convenience store clerk, filed a criminal complaint against George Michael Hodges charging him with indecent exposure. After his other efforts to dissuade her from prosecuting him failed, Hodges shot Ms. Ricks twice in the head and neck with a rifle, killing her. That saved Hodges from the indecent exposure charge, a misdemeanor, but it landed him on Florida's death row where he has been for the last eighteen...

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