Darious Wilcox v. State of Florida

Summary

The court affirmed Wilcox’s convictions and death sentence, although it struck the avoid-arrest aggravating circumstance and found harmless several trial errors. It held that the State properly impeached Wilcox with his prior felony record, but improperly questioned whether those felonies involved dishonesty; the error did not contribute to the verdict. The court also held that the trial court erred by preventing Wilcox from using another person’s statement to refresh a witness’s recollection, but found that error harmless, and rejected Wilcox’s remaining guilt- and penalty-phase claims.