JEROME L. GRIMES, PETITIONER,

v.

OFFICER BARBER, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Khadafy Kareem Mullens v. State, 197 So. 3d 16 (Fla. 2016)
  …rial court is not a simple matter of counting the number of aggravating circumstances against the mitigating circumstances; rather, this is a qualitative analysis. See Brown v. State, 143 So. 3d 392, 407 (Fla.), cert. denied, — U.S. , 135 S.Ct. 726, 190 L.Ed.2d 453 (2014); Muehleman v. State, 3 So. 3d 1149, 1166 (Fla.2009). Therefore, there is no purpose to be served by requiring trial courts to recount factors as both statutory and nonstatutory mitigation. We conclude that the trial court did not err in refus…
• Davis v. State, 207 So. 3d 142 (Fla. 2016)
  …ravators are present, the mitigating circumstances must be of considerable weight to overcome them.” Brown v. State, 143 So. 3d 392, [*173] 405-06 (Fla.) (citing Abdool v. State, 53 So. 3d 208, 224 (Fla.2010)), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 726, 190 L.Ed.2d 453 (2014). This Court has affirmed sentences of death in similar cases. In this Court’s decision in Brown, the defendant poured gasoline on the victim and used a lighter to set her on fire. Brown, 143 So. 3d at 396. After sixteen days in a burn unit,…
• Hardwick v. Sec'y, Fla. Dep't OF Corr., 803 F.3d 541 (11th Cir. 2015)
  …e notes that these aggravators have been characterized by the Florida Supreme Court as being among the most serious aggravating circumstances. See, e.g., Brown v. State, 143 So. 3d 392, 405 (Fla.) (per curiam), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 726, 190 L.Ed.2d 453 (2014) (“This Court has consistently recognized that CCP and HAC are two of the weightiest aggravators in Florida’s statutory sentencing scheme.”); Hodges v. State, 55 So. 3d 515, 542 (Fla.2010) (per curiam) (“Qualitatively, prior violent felony and…