BILLY MCCHRISTON, PETITIONER,

v.

ILLINOIS.

Citator

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• Kaczmar v. State, 228 So. 3d 1 (Fla. 2017)
  …2 (Fla. 2010). Under the totality of the circumstances, Kaczmar’s sentence is proportionate in relation to other death sentences that we have upheld. See, e.g., Gosciminski v. State, 132 So. 3d 678 (Fla. 2013), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 135 S.Ct. 57, 190 L.Ed.2d 57 (2014) (death sentence was proportionate where the victim was stabbed and bludgeoned to death; the trial court found three statutory aggravators, including HAC, few nonstatutory miti-gators, and no statutory mitigators); Pham v. State, 70 So. 3d 485…
• Brooks v. State, 175 So. 3d 204 (Fla. 2015)
  …for failing to present inadmissible evidence. See Gosciminski v. State, 132 So. 3d 678, 702 (Fla.2013) (noting that “[pjolygraph evidence has, as a matter of law, long been inadmissible as evidence in Florida”), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 57, 190 L.Ed.2d 57 (2014); Given v. State, 986 So. 2d 534, 546 (Fla.2008). Further, even if we were to conclude that counsel performed deficiently when they failed to rehabilitate Thomas with the results of her polygraph examination, Brooks has failed to demonstrate p…
• Delmer Smith v. State, 170 So. 3d 745 (Fla. 2015)
  …ction cannot be sustained unless the evidence is inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence.” Gosciminski v. State, 132 So. 3d 678, 710 (Fla.2013) (quoting State v. Law, 559 So. 2d 187 (Fla.1989)), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 57, 190 L.Ed.2d 57 (2014). The State need not “ ‘rebut conclusively every possible variation’ of events which could be inferred from the evidence, but only to introduce competent evidence which is inconsistent with the defendant’s theory of events.” Id. (quoting Law,…