SIMCIC v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding murders motivationally related when defendant went to an apartment intending to kill one victim and killed two others “simply because they were there”
• reaffirming that the state can establish the (F)(8) aggravator where the killings occurred during a “short, uninterrupted span of time”
• asking whether, after reviewing the evidence, a reasonable jury would weigh the mitigation evidence differently and thus reach a different result
• finding temporal element established when murders occurred in a “short, uninterrupted span of time”
• finding a spatial relationship where all three victims “died in the front room of [an] apartment, where they had been seated near one another”
• finding a temporal relationship when undisputed evidence showed that the murders occurred in a “short, uninterrupted span of time”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).