BALLARD

v.

OKLAHOMA

Citator

Cited By

• Crabtree v. State, 624 So. 2d 743 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993)
  …m of years4 at the discretion of the court.5 Courts sentencing for that crime had the discretion to set lengthy sentences, without consideration for normal spans of human life expectancy. See Harmon v. State, 438 So. 2d 369 (Fla.1983), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 832, 111 S.Ct. 96, 112 L.Ed.2d 68 (1990) (sentence of 6 consecutive terms of 100 years affirmed); Alvarez v. State, 358 So. 2d 10 (Fla.1978) (sentence of 125 years affirmed). Had Crabtree been sentenced for a true “life felony” currently, the court cou…
• Lemuel L. Cole v. State, 616 So. 2d 629 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993)
  …PER CURIAM. Affirmed. Harmon v. State, 438 So. 2d 369, 370-71 (Fla.1983), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 832, 111 S.Ct. 96, 112 L.Ed.2d 68 (1990); Alvarez v. State, 358 So. 2d 10 (Fla.1978).…
• Marek v. Singletary, 62 F.3d 1295 (11th Cir. 1995)
  …S.Ct. at 2506 (1977). “[W]here the state court correctly applies a procedural default principle of state law, Sykes requires the federal court to abide by the state court’s decision.” Harmon v. Barton, 894 F. 2d 1268, 1270 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 832, 111 S.Ct. 96, 112 L.Ed.2d 68 (1990). A federal court is not required to honor a state procedural ruling unless that ruling rests on an adequate and independent state ground. Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255, 262, 109 S.Ct. 1038, 1043, 103 L.Ed.2d 308…