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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: bizarre Florida case query
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Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 18:23:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 16 18:23:18 1984
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Last winter I saw a description of a bizarre case in
(I think) Florida.  A man was accused of murder and
went to trial.  While the jury was out, the prosecutor
offered him the following deal:  if he would change his
plea to guilty, he would be sentenced to forty years
without parole, but if he did not change it and he was
convicted, he would be sentenced to death.

He maintained that he was not guilty.  However, he felt
that forty years was not too high a price to pay to avoid
the risk of being executed, so he changed his plea.

Three minutes later, the jury found him not guilty.

The last I heard about that case was that an appeals court
had refused to hear the case, because once there is a guilty
plea there is no verdict to appeal.

Does anyone out there know more?