Todd Zommer, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee — Pariente, J., Concurring

Summary

Justice Pariente concurred in affirming the conviction and death sentence but wrote separately to caution that a prolonged attack using multiple instruments, without additional evidence of advance planning, does not alone establish the heightened premeditation aggravator. She also explained that the nonunanimous sentencing verdict was not constitutionally infirm in this case because a prior violent felony aggravator was present. The concurrence further emphasized that capital aggravators must be narrowly defined and that a defendant need not prove mitigating circumstances to obtain a life sentence.