William Roger Davis, Iii, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Davis’s convictions and death sentence after independently reviewing the evidence and rejecting each challenge to the penalty proceedings. It held that the trial court properly rejected the extreme-mental-or-emotional-disturbance mitigator, properly found the CCP aggravator, and did not improperly rely on nonstatutory aggravation, but erred in finding the avoid-arrest aggravator; that error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. The court also rejected Davis’s challenges to the trial court’s neutrality, the HAC instruction, Ring, and proportionality.