Emilia L. Carr, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Carr’s first-degree murder conviction and death sentence, rejecting her challenges to evidentiary rulings, continuances, penalty-phase arguments, mitigation findings, aggravators, proportionality, and the sufficiency of the evidence. The court held that Carr’s school-record objections were unpreserved, the excluded documents were inadmissible hearsay or lacked a fair opportunity for rebuttal, and the challenged penalty-phase rulings caused no reversible error. The court also concluded that competent, substantial evidence supported the CCP and HAC aggravators and that the death sentence was proportionate. The separate opinions shown in the text are not included in the record for this extraction.