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by Peter G on Tue Aug 01, 2006 at 06:28:42 PM EST
Can there be two guys named "Thomas C. O'Bryant" serving two life sentences in America? If not, the Florida 1st Dist. Court of Appeals described the case differently in 2000 (765 So.2d 745): "Appellant entered a negotiated guilty plea to one count of robbery while armed with a firearm and one count of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer. The offenses to which appellant pled guilty were committed on June 10, 1995. The law in effect at the time appellant committed his offenses authorized as possible sentences for the crime of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer a term of life imprisonment or a term of years not to exceed 40 years imprisonment, with the offender being required to serve at least 25 years in prison whether a life sentence or a term of years was imposed. See §§ 784.07(3), 775.082(3)(a), and 775.0825, Fla. Stat (1993). As part of his plea agreement, appellant agreed to sentences of life imprisonment on each count, and the state agreed to have both sentences run concurrent with one another. In accordance with his plea agreement, appellant was adjudicated guilty of these offenses and sentenced in January 1996 to two concurrent terms of life imprisonment, with 25 years minimum mandatory to be served for the attempted murder and 3 years minimum mandatory to be served for the robbery. Appellant did not appeal from these convictions and sentences." A quick WestLaw search didn't turn up any other "Thomas C. O'Bryant." Doesn't necessarily bear on whether his scholarship merits publication in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, of course.

Inmate Writes Harvard Law Review Article | 5 comments (5 topical)

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