Cozzie v. State
Annotate this CaseThe Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s conviction for first-degree premeditated or felony murder with a weapon and his sentence of death, holding (1) the trial court did not err in denying Defendant’s challenges for cause against two prospective jurors; (2) the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the rebuttal testimony of the State’s mental health expert; (3) any error in the trial court's finding of the avoid arrest aggravator was harmless; (4) the State’s penalty phase evidence did not become an impermissible feature of the penalty phase; (5) the Hurst v. State error in this case was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt; (6) the evidence was sufficient to support Defendant’s conviction; and (7) the death sentence in this case was proportionate.
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