Supreme Court of Florida

A conviction for first-degree murder is affirmed but the death sentence vacated and remanded to the trial judge for reevaluation of the mitigation and the sentence where the trial court erred in finding that a mitigating circumstance -- inability to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law -- had not been established.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/26/2006
• Published 10/26/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender and Jeffrey L. Anderson, Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida and Leslie T. Campbell, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, Florida, for Appellee.