Ex Parte Lawley

Decided August 7, 1987. Alva Hugh Maddox wrote the opinion for the court.

512 So. 2d 1370 · Cited 136 times

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• Summers v. State · 366 So. 2d 336
• Tillis v. State · 296 So. 2d 892
• Chapman v. State · 412 So. 2d 1276

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