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Smith v. State, No. SC05-703 (Fla. 3/19/2009) (Fla., 2009)

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COREY SMITH, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. SC05-703. Supreme Court of Florida. March 19, 2009. An Appeal from the Circuit Court in and for Dade County, Jorge Perez, Judge ? Case No. F00040026A. Teresa Mary Pooler, Miami, Florida, for Appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, and Carol M. Dittmar, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, Florida, for Appellee. PER CURIAM. This case is before the Court on appeal from a judgment of first-degree murder and a sentence of death as well as convictions for a number of other offenses. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. For the reasons explained below, we affirm both the convictions and the death sentence. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORYIn December 2000, Corey “Bubba” Smith and seven other individuals were indicted by a Miami-Dade County grand jury in a seventeen-count indictment for crimes committed in connection with the John Doe organization...continue to full post

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