Read Davis v. State of Florida, SC06-1868

Death sentence affirmed. Trial court did not err in allowing the prosecutor to argue that the murder was cold, calculated and premeditated where, among other things, Defendant took a murder weapon to the crime scene and obtained replacement knives to continue the stabbing murders of two women even after first and second knives broke. Trial court erred in considering post-murder criminal conduct when deciding Defendant had not established lack of significant criminal history, but the error was harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/23/2008
• Published 12/23/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Nada M. Carey, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Stephen R. White, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, for Appellee.