Monday, June 1, 1998
Alphonso Cave vs. State of Florida

No. 90,165

Place of Origin
Stuart, Martin County

Facts
Cave was convicted for participating in the April 1982 murder of convenience-store clerk Frances Julia Slater in Stuart and sentenced to death. In the early 1990s a federal court vacated the death penalty and ordered a new penalty phase, which was held in 1993. On direct appeal, a new penalty phase again was ordered. He was against sentenced to death, and appeals to the Supreme Court.