SC10-318 – Luther Douglas v. State of Florida

State: Florida

Docket No: SC10-318

Case Date: 01/05/2012

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____________ No. SC10-318 ____________ LUTHER DOUGLAS, Appellant, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. ____________ No. SC10-1725 ____________ LUTHER DOUGLAS, Petitioner, vs. KENNETH S. TUCKER, etc., Respondent. [January 5, 2012] REVISED OPINION PER CURIAM. Luther Douglas, who was twenty-five years old at the time of the crime, was convicted of the 1999 sexual battery and first-degree murder of eighteen-year-old

Mary Ann Hobgood and sentenced to death. On direct appeal, we affirmed his convictions and sentences. See Douglas v. State, 878 So. 2d 1246 (Fla. 2004). Douglas now appeals the denial of his motion for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851 and simultaneously petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus. We have jurisdiction. See art. V,

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