Supreme Court of Florida

A conviction and death sentence for murder is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) mitigation findings of the trial court; 2) whether the trial court improperly required the jurors to record a numerical vote for findings with regard to each aggravating and mitigating factor presented; 3) a Ring claim; 4) the constitutionality of the standard penalty-phase jury instructions; 5) the constitutionality of lethal injection; and 6) the proportionality of the death sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/01/2008
• Published 05/01/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert A. Norgard and Andrea M. Norgard of Norgard and Norgard Attorneys at Law, Bartow, FL, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, and Barbara C. Davis, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, FL, for Appellee.