SHERRILL
v.
JAGO, CORRECTIONAL SUPERINTENDENT

U.S. | 1979-10-15
No. 79-5252
444 U.S. 919 Supreme Court of the United States (1979) Negative Treatment
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  • Straight v. State, 397 So. 2d 903 (Fla. 1981)
    …g circumstances makes clear that any added weight accorded the factor did not tip the balance in favor of a sentence of death rather than life, the error of double recitation is harmless. See Hargrave v. State, 366 So. 2d 1 (Fla.1978), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 919, 100 S.Ct. 239, 62 L.Ed.2d 176 (1979); Elledge v. State, 346 So. 2d 998 (Fla.1977). We approve the finding of one statutory aggravating circumstance based on the commission of murder in the course of the felony of robbery. The trial judge’s finding…
  • Sireci v. State, 399 So. 2d 964 (Fla. 1981)
    …rtain mitigating factors. Findings of a judge are factual matters which should not be disturbed unless there is an absence or lack of substantial competent evidence to support those findings. Hargrave v. State, 366 So. 2d 1 (Fla.1978), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 919, 100 S.Ct. 239, 62 L.Ed.2d 176 (1979); Lucas v. State, 376 So. 2d 1149 (Fla.1979). Defendant argues that the trial judge improperly doubled the aggravating circumstances of robbery and pecuniary gain. He relies upon Provence v. State, 337 So. 2d 78…
  • Ferguson v. State, 417 So. 2d 639 (Fla. 1982)
    …(Fla.1980), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 1103, 101 S.Ct. 899, 66 L.Ed.2d 289 (1981); Dob-bert v. State, 375 So. 2d 1069 (Fla.1979), cert. denied, 447 U.S. 912,101 S.Ct. 3000, 64 L.Ed.2d 862 (1980); Hargrave v. State, 366 So. 2d 1 (Fla.1978), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 919, 100 S.Ct. 239, 62 L.Ed.2d 176 (1979); and Elledge v. State, 346 So. 2d 998 (Fla.1977). The execution-style murders committed by the defendant have often led to an appropriately imposed sentence of death. In Sullivan v. State, 303 So. 2d 632 (Fla.1…

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