Supreme Court of Florida· 3/20/2008

Phillips v. State

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984 So. 2d 503
2008 WL 731897

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concluding that the defendant’s ability to plan and cover-up the murder was inconsistent with a finding of deficient adaptive functioning
concluding that the defendant’s ability to plan and cover-up the murder was inconsistent with a finding of deficient adaptive functioning
holding that a trial court’s order finding a lack of a deficit in adaptive behavior was supported by competent, substantial evidence of the defendant’s strengths that refuted the defendant’s purported limitations
holding that a trial court's order finding a lack of a deficit in adaptive behavior was supported by competent, substantial evidence of the defendant's strengths that refuted the defendant's purported limitations
deferring to the trial court’s determination that the state’s expert, who testified the defendant was malingering, was more credible than the defendant’s expert, who did not test the defendant for malingering
“As the trial court found, ‘there was no evidence [t]o support the Defendant’s contention that his poor , grades were a result of mental retardation.’ ”

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