652 So. 2d 344 - Card v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “The Court is convinced in this case by the evidence that the final Judgment and Sentence was in fact prepared by Ms. Kohler or Jill Brown on Ms. Kohler's computer. Even though the contact between Ms. Kohler and assistant state attorney Alexander may have been improper, it did not deal in any way with the judge's independent weighing of the aggravating and mitigating circumstances and his determination to impose a sentence of death. This contact was purely ministerial in nature concerning the wording of the Judgment and Sentence on one narrow issue to express the judge's wishes.[ [7] ] There was no evidence presented that Judge Perry failed to independently weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether the death penalty should be imposed or that he failed to do so before directing his law clerk to prepare the Judgment and Sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Randolph v. State