State v. Santiago
Annotate this CaseIn this case a jury found that Marc Pascual hired Defendant Eduardo Santiago to murder the victim and that Defendant acted in concert with Matthew Tyrell to break into the victim's home and fatally shoot him. The jury then returned a verdict finding Defendant guilty of all the charged offenses in the ten count information, including capital felony. The trial court sentenced Defendant to death by lethal injection. The Supreme Court (1) affirmed the underlying judgment of conviction; but (2) reversed the judgment insofar as it imposed a sentence of death, holding that the trial court did not err when it reviewed the department of children and families' file in camera, but the scope of its review failed to disclose significant and relevant mitigating evidence, requiring that Defendant receive a new penalty phase hearing. Remanded to the trial court for a new penalty phase hearing, following a new in camera review of the department's files and disclosure of evidence material to Defendant's case in mitigation.
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