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Thompson v. State

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ARTHUR THOMPSON, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D07-2418. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. June 25, 2008. Appeal of order denying rule 3.800(a) motion from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Stanton S. Kaplan, Judge; L.T. Case No. 89-6825 CF10A. Ryan J. Sydejko of Loren Rhoton, P.A., Tampa, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and August Bonavita, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee. PER CURIAM. Appellant, Arthur Thompson, was convicted by a jury, on July 22, 1991, of first-degree murder, burglary with assault and battery, and robbery, all arising from his uninvited entry into a trailer and killing of its resident. The trial court sentenced Thompson to life in prison as a habitual felony offender (HFO) with a 25-year mandatory minimum for the murder conviction, life in prison as a HFO for the burglary conviction, and 30 years in prison as a HFO for the robbery conviction...continue to full post

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