Supreme Court of Florida

Defendant's convictions and death sentences upon retrial on murder charges are affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) double jeopardy; 2) denial of a mistrial based on prosecutorial misconduct; 3) admission of evidence; 4) jury instructions; 5) the constitutionality of Florida's capital sentencing scheme in light of Apprendi and Ring; 6) sustaining an objection to defense counsel-s comments during closing argument regarding the state-s failure to present DNA evidence; 7) cumulative error; 8) sufficiency of the evidence; and 9) the proportionality of the sentences.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/16/2006
• Published 11/16/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roy D. Wasson of Wasson and Associates, Chartered, Miami, FL, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Christ, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, and Sandra S. Jaggard, Assistant Attorney General, Miami, FL, for Appellee.