MINNESOTA

v.

BROWN

Citator

Cited By (19 total)

• Penn v. State, 574 So. 2d 1079 (Fla. 1991)
  …ee Middleton v. State, 426 So. 2d 548, 553 (Fla.1982) (“[T]he jury’s recommendation of a sentence of death is a strong indication that it did not find appellant’s emotional state particularly compelling as a mitigating circumstance.”), cert. denied, 463 U.S. 1230, 103 S.Ct. 3573, 77 L.Ed.2d 1413 (1983). The trial judge was in the best position to evaluate the propriety of the recommendation because he heard the evidence. In vacating Penn’s death sentence on grounds of proportionality, this Court has unwitt…
• Nibert v. State, 508 So. 2d 1 (Fla. 1987)
  …, transporting, raping, and setting victim on fire); Middleton v. State, 426 So. 2d 548 (Fla.1982) (defendant confessed he sat with a shotgun in his hands for an hour, looking at the victim as she slept and thinking about killing her) [cert. denied, 463 U.S. 1230, 103 S.Ct. 3573, 77 L.Ed.2d 1413 (1983)]; Bolender v. State, 422 So. 2d 833 (Fla.1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 939, 103 S.Ct. 2111, 77 L.Ed.2d 315 (1983) (defendant held the victims at gunpoint for hours and ordered them to strip and then beat and t…
• Deaton v. State, 480 So. 2d 1279 (Fla. 1985)
  …ports the trial judge’s findings. See Johnson v. State, 465 So. 2d 499 (Fla.1985); Clark v. State, 443 So. 2d 973 (Fla.1983), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 104 S.Ct. 2400, 81 L.Ed.2d 356 (1984); Middleton v. State, 426 So. 2d 548 (Fla.1982), cert. denied, 463 U.S. 1230, 103 S.Ct. 3573, 77 L.Ed.2d 1413 (1983). Appellant next argues the trial judge erred in failing to find appellant’s age as a mitigating circumstance. With respect to that factor, the trial court found the following: This mitigating circumstance do…