Supreme Court of Florida

Defendant's convictions for first-degree premeditated and felony murder as well as his two death sentences are affirmed over claims that: 1) the statute abolishing the voluntary intoxication defense is unconstitutional; 2) insufficient evidence supports defendant's convictions; 3) the trial court erred in finding burglary and CCP aggravators; 4) the trial court erred in the weight given to burglary and prior violent felony aggravators; 5) the issuance of a sentencing order lacked clarity; 6) the court erred in refusing to require the state to follow a promise it made to the government of Mexico that it would not seek a death sentence if defendant were released into the state's custody; 7) the death sentence was illegal under Ring; 8) the giving of standard jury instructions diminished the jury's sense of responsibility for sentencing; and 9) the sentences were not proportionate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/14/2008
• Published 02/14/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy Daniels, Public Defender, and David A. Davis, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, FL, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Charmaine M. Millsaps, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Appellee.