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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ No. 1D16-5621 _____________________________ DONTAVIOUS LAMAR COPELAND, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. _____________________________ On appeal from the Circuit Court for Alachua County. Mark W. Moseley, Judge. February 9, 2018 OSTERHAUS, J. Dontavious Lamar

ROWE, J. Dontavious Copeland appeals his conviction for first-degree murder and his sentence to life without the possibility of parole. Copeland raises three issues on appeal. We affirm on all grounds and write only to address Copeland’s argument that a juvenile convicted of first-degree murder cannot be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole pursuant to section 775.082, Florida Statutes (2012).

SLEET, Judge. George Copeland appeals the order summarily denying his motion to correct illegal sentence pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 8.800(a). Although we affirm the postconviction court’s denial of Copeland’s motion as successive and without merit, we write to address Copeland’s misplaced reliance on Shingler v. State, 74 So.3d 171 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011). In his motion, Copeland a

MATHESON, Circuit Judge. In 2008, Aaron Eugene Copeland pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The district court imposed an enhanced sentence of 15 years in prison under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924 (e), based on

USCA11 Case: 22-13073 Document: 38-1 Date Filed: 03/28/2024 Page: 1 of 32 [PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 22-13073 ____________________ TYLER M. COPELAND,

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT LAWRENCE L. THOMPSON, No. 16-35301 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. v. 2:14-cv-01769- MJP SUE RAHR, Head Sheriff's Officers/and Department, Defendant, OPINION and PETE COPELAND, Deputy Sheriff Officer;

864 So.2d 1197 (2004) Harry COPELAND, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. No. 1D02-419. District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District. January 14, 2004. *1198 Steven L. Seliger, Garcia and Seliger, Quincy, for Appellant. Charlie Crist, Attorney General; Karen Armstrong, Assistant Attorney General, Office

FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ No. 1D2023-0089 _____________________________ DAN IOAN BELC, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. _____________________________ On appeal from the Circuit Court for Calhoun County. Christopher Patterson, Judge. March 12, 2025 OSTERHAUS, C.J. Dan Ioan Belc ap

BLUE, Chief Judge. George Copeland appeals the summary denial of his motion for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. Copeland was convicted after jury trial of robbery and aggravated assault. He was sentenced as a habitual felony offender to concurrent sentences of thirty years in prison on the robbery count and ten years in prison on the aggravated assault count.

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC17-2244 ____________ RAYMOND BRIGHT, Appellant, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. April 2, 2020 PER CURIAM. In 2009, Raymond B

FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ No. 1D17-3669 _____________________________ BERNY SERRANO, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. _____________________________ On appeal from the Circuit Court for Levy County. Mark W. Moseley, Judge. August 30, 2019 RAY, C.J. Berny Serrano appeals from an

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING PER CURIAM. Upon consideration of the motion for rehearing filed in this case, we grant rehearing and withdraw the opinion filed May 12, 1998, and substitute this opinion. Appellant Copeland was convicted and sentenced as a habit*609ual offender for two counts of possession of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, first deg

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT NICKOLAS WHITE, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D17-3500 [ May 8, 2019 ] Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Pau

FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ No. 1D17-4095 _____________________________ KIMOTHY MARK SIMMONS, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. _____________________________ On appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County. Linda F. McCallum, Judge. March 7, 2019 PER CURIAM. Kimothy M. Simmons (“Simmo

PER CURIAM. This is an appeal from an order entered on Raymond Bright’s initial motion to vacate his convictions of first-degree murder and sentences of death filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851. The State of Florida appeals the postcon-viction court order to the extent that it granted Bright a new penalty phase trial. Bright cross-appealed the postconvict

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE March 22, 2005 Session STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ARTHUR T. COPELAND Circuit Court for Blount County No. C-11100 D. Kelly Thomas, Jr. No. E2002-01123-CCA-R3-DD - Filed August 22, 2005 The defendant, Arthur T. Copeland, was convicted by a Blount County jury of one count of

369 F.Supp.2d 275 (2005) UNITED STATES of America, v. Richard COPELAND, Defendant. No. 01-CR-1453. United States District Court, E.D. New York. May 4, 2005. *276 *277 Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney, Brooklyn, NY By Scott Dunn, for the Government. Michael Padden, Federal Def

PER CURIAM. Zachary Taylor Wood, who was twenty-three years old at the time of the crimes, appeals his conviction and death sentence for the April 2014 first-degree murder of James William Shores. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm Wood’s conviction. However, we conclude that the trial court erred as a matter of law in finding two of the three aggravating fac

BENTON, J. On direct appeal, Javarris Lane challenges sentences imposed for offenses committed when he was sixteen. After granting a motion to correct sentencing error pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b)(2), the trial court re-sentenced Mr. Lane to life in prison without the possibility of parole for second-degree murder, to a concurrent term of thirty years’

Supreme Court of Florida. Cer*852tiorari denied. Petitioner pro se. Releford McGriff and Joseph C. Waddy for petitioner.