Martin v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s conviction and sentence, holding (1) the trial court properly considered in mitigation Defendant’s IQ score in conjunction with evidence of his low cognitive functioning; (2) Defendant was not entitled to relief on his claim that the trial court failed to consider, find, and weigh as a mitigating circumstance that Defendant had a history of drug and alcohol abuse; (3) trial court did not err in finding as aggravating circumstances that the homicide was committed in a cold, calculated, and premeditated manner and was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel; (4) Defendant’s claim that Florida’s death penalty scheme is unconstitutional under Ring v. Arizona was without merit; (5) there was sufficient evidence to affirm Defendant’s conviction for first-degree murder; and (6) Defendant’s death sentence was proportional to other cases where the Court has upheld a sentence of death.
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