Ruffin v. State, 90-2495
| Citation | 589 So.2d 403 |
| Decision Date | 14 November 1991 |
| Docket Number | No. 90-2495,90-2495 |
| Parties | Mack C. RUFFIN, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. 589 So.2d 403, 16 Fla. L. Week. D2863 |
| Court | Court of Appeal of Florida (US) |
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v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Fifth District.
Rehearing Denied Dec. 6, 1991.
James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Noel A. Pelella, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Rebecca R. Wall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.
HARRIS, Judge.
In July 1978, Mack C. Ruffin, Jr. was convicted in Sumter County of first degree murder and sexual battery. The convictions arose from the sexual assault and murder of a 21 year old pregnant woman, Karol Hurst. 1 Ruffin was sentenced to death on the murder conviction and a thirty year concurrent term on the sexual battery. He appealed both sentences to the Florida Supreme Court and both sentences were affirmed. 2 He then applied to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, which was denied. 3 Again in state court, he filed a 3.850 motion to set aside his convictions which was denied. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed. 4 He later applied to the Florida Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus, but was unsuccessful. 5
Ruffin then brought an action in the federal district court for habeas corpus relief, challenging both his murder and sexual assault convictions. The district court refused to issue the writ and he appealed
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to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The Eleventh Circuit found no error in the convictions, but found error as to the death sentence and remanded the case to the district court with instructions to grant the writ unless the state either resentenced appellant on the murder conviction, or vacated the death sentence and imposed a lesser sentence. 6 On February 20, 1989, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida ordered the trial court to resentence appellant within 90 days as to the murder sentence.A retrial of the murder conviction penalty phase was then conducted, in which the jury recommended life imprisonment. On October 19, 1990, the court sentenced appellant to life (25 years minimum mandatory) to run consecutive to any other sentences. The trial court vacated the original 30 year concurrent sentence for sexual battery (not required by the Eleventh Circuit decision) and resentenced appellant to a life term to be served consecutive to the earlier life sentence and any...
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