Carr v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Emilia Carr was found guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping. The trial court sentenced Carr to death, concluding that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstances. The Supreme Court affirmed Carr’s conviction for first-degree murder and her sentence of death, holding (1) the trial court’s evidentiary rulings as to the admissibility of certain documents were proper; (2) the trial court did not err by denying Carr’s motions to continue; (3) the trial court did not err by overruling Carr’s objections to certain prosecutorial comments during the penalty phase; (4) the trial court did not err in its treatment of the mitigating evidence; (5) the trial court did not err in finding the cold, calculated, and premeditated aggravator and the heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator; (6) the death sentence was proportionate; and (7) there was sufficient evidence to support Carr’s first-degree murder conviction.
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