132 So. 3d 756 - McCoy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “[A] review of other cases establishes that death is a proportionate punishment in this case. For example, in Lawrence v. State, 846 So.2d 440, 455 (Fla. 2003), this Court upheld a death sentence despite the presence of five statutory mitigating circumstances, including considerable weight assigned to two statutory mental health mitigators. Further, Lawrence included the same two aggravating circumstances as this case — CCP and prior violent felony— both of which the trial court in Lawrence , like the trial court in this case, assigned great weight. Id.; see also Diaz v. State, 860 So.2d 960 , 964 n. 3 & n. 4 (Fla.2003) (upholding death sentence in case where the same two aggra-vators (CCP and prior violent felony), both assigned great weight, were upheld on appeal, and the trial court found five statutory mitigating circumstances, including the same two statutory mitigating circumstances as in this case (no significant history of prior criminal activity and under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance), as well as the age mitigator and the additional mental health mitigator rejected by the trial court in this case).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 159 So. 3d 814 - John William Campbell v. State of Florida

2. “knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily entered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Craig Alan Wall, Sr. v. State of Florida