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Waterfield v. State, Case No. 2D09-4048 (Fla. App. 4/30/2010) (Fla. App., 2010)

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FREDERICK I. WATERFIELD JR., Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. Case No. 2D09-4048. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District. Opinion filed April 30, 2010. Appeal pursuant to Fla. R. App. P. 9.141(b)(2) from the Circuit Court for Charlotte County; Alane C. Laboda, Judge. Frederick L. Waterfield Jr., pro se. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Sara Macks, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee. WHATLEY, Judge. In 1983 Frederick I. Waterfield Jr. was charged in Indian River County with a series of murders, kidnappings, and rapes. Reacting to pretrial publicity, the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit transferred some charges to the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court, Lake County. One homicide charge was transferred to the Twentieth Page 2 Judicial Circuit, Charlotte County, where Waterfield was convicted of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years in prison...continue to full post

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