COFFMAN

v.

JONES, WARDEN, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Reynolds v. State, 934 So. 2d 1128 (Fla. 2006)
  …e avoid ar [*1157] rest aggravator. Likewise, the mere fact that the victim knew and could identify defendant, without more, is insufficient to prove this aggravator.” Looney v. State, 803 So. 2d 656, 676 (Fla.2001) (citation omitted), cert. denied, 536 U.S. 966[, 122 S.Ct. 2678, 153 L.Ed.2d 850] (2002); see also Consalvo v. State, 697 So. 2d 805, 819 (Fla.1996). Bell v. State, 841 So. 2d 329, 336 (Fla.2002). However, “[e]ven without direct evidence of the offender’s thought processes, the arrest avoidance…
• Chamberlain v. State, 881 So. 2d 1087 (Fla. 2004)
  …e execution style); Looney v. State, 803 So. 2d 656, 678 (Fla.2001) (applying CCP where “the defendants had ample opportunity to reflect upon their actions, following which they mutually decided to shoot the victims execution-style ”), cert. denied, 536 U.S. 966, 122 S.Ct. 2678, 153 L.Ed.2d 850 (2002); Alston v. State, 723 So. 2d 148, 162 (Fla.1998) (sustaining the CCP aggravator where the “appellant had ample opportunity to release [the victim] after the robbery,” but chose to kill him); Eutzy v. State, 45…
• Micah Louis Nelson v. State, 850 So. 2d 514 (Fla. 2003)
  …001) (finding that once the defendants immobilized the victims, gained access to the victims’ property and vehicles, and secured an uncontested getaway, the only remaining reason to kill the victims was to eliminate them as witnesses), cert. denied, 536 U.S. 966, 122 S.Ct. 2678, 153 L.Ed.2d 850 (2002). Nelson’s act of taking Brace to a remote area to kill her also lends support to the finding of the avoid arrest aggravator in this case. The evidence at trial was that Nelson drove to an isolated orange grov…