Michael M. Yacob v. State of Florida

Summary

The court affirmed Yacob’s convictions for first-degree murder and armed robbery with a firearm after independently determining that the evidence was sufficient under both premeditated-murder and felony-murder theories. It vacated the death sentence because comparative proportionality review showed that the single merged aggravator was not sufficiently weighty and the case was not among the most aggravated and least mitigated murders. The court remanded for imposition of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.