four aggravating factors in Florida

2013Van Poyck III, 290 F.3d at 1325-26 (footnote omitted).

2007Id. at 1325-26 .

2017Morrison, 818 So. 2d at 456-57 (footnote omitted).

2017Morrison , 818 So.2d at 456-57 (footnote omitted).

2010Id.; see also Hunter v. State, 8 So.3d 1052, 1057 (Fla. 2008) (affirming multiple death sentences where defendant and codefendants invaded home and murdered its occupants with baseball bats, and where the court found five statutory aggravators — prior violent felony conviction, HAC, CCP, committed in the course of a burglary, and committed to avoid arrest — and three statutory miti- gators, including defendant’s age), cert, denied, - U.S. -, 129 S.Ct. 2005 , 173 L.Ed.2d 1101 (2009); Davis v. State, 2 So.3d 952, 965 (Fla.2008) (affirming death sentences where defendant entered home of friends a

2010Id.; see also Hunter v. State, 8 So.3d 1052, 1057 (Fla. 2008) (affirming multiple death sentences where defendant and codefendants invaded home and murdered its occupants with baseball bats, and where the court found five statutory aggravators—prior violent felony conviction, HAC, CCP, committed in the course of a burglary, and committed to avoid arrest—and three statutory mitigators, *880 including defendant's age), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 129 S.Ct. 2005 , 173 L.Ed.2d 1101 (2009); Davis v. State, 2 So.3d 952, 965 (Fla.2008) (affirming death sentences where defendant entered home of friend

2010Id.; see also Hunter v. State, 8 So.3d 1052, 1057 (Fla. 2008) (affirming multiple death sentences where defendant and codefendants invaded home and murdered its occupants with baseball bats, and where the court found five statutory aggravators — prior violent felony conviction, HAC, CCP, committed in the course of a burglary, and committed to avoid arrest — and three statutory miti- gators, including defendant’s age), cert, denied, - U.S. -, 129 S.Ct. 2005 , 173 L.Ed.2d 1101 (2009); Davis v. State, 2 So.3d 952, 965 (Fla.2008) (affirming death sentences where defendant entered home of friends a

2010Id.; see also Hunter v. State, 8 So.3d 1052, 1057 (Fla. 2008) (affirming multiple death sentences where defendant and codefendants invaded home and murdered its occupants with baseball bats, and where the court found five statutory aggravators—prior violent felony conviction, HAC, CCP, committed in the course of a burglary, and committed to avoid arrest—and three statutory mitigators, *880 including defendant's age), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 129 S.Ct. 2005 , 173 L.Ed.2d 1101 (2009); Davis v. State, 2 So.3d 952, 965 (Fla.2008) (affirming death sentences where defendant entered home of friend

2009See Anderson v. State, 863 So.2d 169 , 175 n. 5 (Fla.2003).

2007We recently held that "a trial court departs from the essential requirements of law in a death penalty case by using a penalty phase special verdict form that details the jurors' determination concerning aggravating factors found by the jury." State v. Steele, 921 So.2d 538, 548 (Fla.2005).

2007See id.

2006See Fla. Bar v. Golden, 563 So.2d 81 (Fla. 1990) (imposing a one-year suspension due to the seriousness of respondent's failure to abide by his suspension, failure to inform the client of his suspension, failure to return funds, his lack of remorse, and his past disciplinary actions).

2004This Court has previously stated that HAC is one "of the most serious aggravators set out in the statutory sentencing scheme." Larkins v. State, 739 So.2d 90, 95 (Fla.1999).

2002See Orme v. State, 677 So.2d 258, 263 (Fla.1996) (holding the death sentence proportional for the sexual battery, beating, and strangulation of victim where there were three statutory aggravators— HAC, pecuniary gain, and sexual battery— and both statutory mental mitigators); Schwab v. State, 636 So.2d 3, 7 (Fla. 1994) (holding the death sentence proportional for kidnapping, murder, and sexual battery of a boy, where prior conviction of violent felony, murder in the course of a felony, and HAC were proven).

2002In Mendoza v. State, 700 So.2d 670, 679 (Fla.1997), however, this Court rejected a strikingly similar argument, where the defendant argued that the death penalty was disproportionate "because the murder was not planned but was committed on the spur of the moment during a robbery gone awry," and that "the shooting of [the victim] was a reflexive action in response to [the victim's] resistance to the robbery." Rather, this Court affirmed the defendant's death sentence in Mendoza based upon only two of the four aggravating factors found against Morrison (i.e., previous conviction of a violent fel

2002See Mendoza, 700 So.2d at 672 ; see also Carter v. State, 576 So.2d 1291, 1293 (Fla.1989) (rejecting argument that death penalty was disproportionate because it was merely a case of a "robbery gone bad" when court found three aggravating circumstances which far outweighed the nonstatutory mitigating circumstances of the defendant's deprived childhood).

2002See Mendoza, 700 So.2d at 672 ; see also Carter v. State, 576 So.2d 1291, 1293 (Fla.1989) (rejecting argument that death penalty was disproportionate because it was merely a case of a "robbery gone bad" when court found three aggravating circumstances which far outweighed the nonstatutory mitigating circumstances of the defendant's deprived childhood).

2002See Orme v. State, 677 So.2d 258, 263 (Fla.1996) (holding the death sentence proportional for the sexual battery, beating, and strangulation of victim where there were three statutory aggravators— HAC, pecuniary gain, and sexual battery— and both statutory mental mitigators); Schwab v. State, 636 So.2d 3, 7 (Fla. 1994) (holding the death sentence proportional for kidnapping, murder, and sexual battery of a boy, where prior conviction of violent felony, murder in the course of a felony, and HAC were proven).

2000See, e.g., Brown v. State, 721 So.2d 274 (Fla.1998)(affirming death penalty where evidence established the four valid aggravating factors of prior violent felony conviction, murder committed during robbery and pecuniary gain (merged), heinous, atrocious, and cruel, and cold, calculated, and premeditated, and two nonstatutory mitigating circumstances involving Brown's family background and Brown's drug and alcohol abuse); Gordon v. State, 704 So.2d 107 (Fla.1997)(affirming death penalty where evidence established the four aggravating factors of murder during commission of burglary, pecuniary ga

2000See, e.g., Brown v. State, 721 So.2d 274 (Fla.1998)(affirming death penalty where evidence established the four valid aggravating factors of prior violent felony conviction, murder committed during robbery and pecuniary gain (merged), heinous, atrocious, and cruel, and cold, calculated, and premeditated, and two nonstatutory mitigating circumstances involving Brown's family background and Brown's drug and alcohol abuse); Gordon v. State, 704 So.2d 107 (Fla.1997)(affirming death penalty where evidence established the four aggravating factors of murder during commission of burglary, pecuniary ga

1996See, e.g., Walls v. State, 641 So.2d 381, 391 (Fla.1994)(death sentence upheld for execution-style killing of woman after she witnessed boyfriend's murder), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 115 S.Ct. 943 , 130 L.Ed.2d 887 (1995); Cave v. State, 476 So.2d 180 (Fla.1985), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1178 , 106 S.Ct. 2907 , 90 L.Ed.2d 993 (1986)(death sentence proportionate where co-perpetrators abducted, raped, and killed victim; defendant not actual killer).

1996See, e.g., Walls v. State, 641 So.2d 381, 391 (Fla.1994)(death sentence upheld for execution-style killing of woman after she witnessed boyfriend's murder), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 115 S.Ct. 943 , 130 L.Ed.2d 887 (1995); Cave v. State, 476 So.2d 180 (Fla.1985), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1178 , 106 S.Ct. 2907 , 90 L.Ed.2d 993 (1986)(death sentence proportionate where co-perpetrators abducted, raped, and killed victim; defendant not actual killer).

1996See, e.g., Walls v. State, 641 So.2d 381, 391 (Fla.1994)(death sentence upheld for execution-style killing of woman after she witnessed boyfriend's murder), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 115 S.Ct. 943 , 130 L.Ed.2d 887 (1995); Cave v. State, 476 So.2d 180 (Fla.1985), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1178 , 106 S.Ct. 2907 , 90 L.Ed.2d 993 (1986)(death sentence proportionate where co-perpetrators abducted, raped, and killed victim; defendant not actual killer).