Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Robert Morris v. State of Florida

no. 04-1594 | 05-227
Polk County

Morris was convicted of the first-degree murder of 88-year-old Violet Livingston, who was fatally beaten, strangled and suffocated in her Lakeland apartment in September 1994. The jury voted 8-4 to recommend a death sentence and he was condemned. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence and, after a hearing, a trial judge denied his first post-conviction appeal. Morris challenges that denial with this appeal.