Supreme Court of Florida

Death sentence for first-degree premeditated murder is affirmed where: 1) the case involved bludgeoning, strangling, and finally suffocating of victim; 2) the trial court correctly found that the weighty aggravator of heinous, atrocious or cruel (HAC), along with the cold, calculated, and premeditated (CCP), financial gain, and avoid arrest aggravators, when weighed against only one statutory mitigator, supported a sentence of death; and 3) the death sentence in this case was proportionate.

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• Decided 02/19/2009
• Published 02/19/2009

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• Supreme Court of Florida

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