Supreme Court of Florida

Joseph Edward Jordan v. State of Florida Corrected Opinion

October 29, 2015

Summary

The court affirmed Jordan's convictions for first-degree felony murder and armed robbery and his death sentence. It rejected his claims concerning prosecutorial misconduct, the heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator, victim-impact evidence, mitigation, proportionality, and the constitutionality of Florida's capital sentencing scheme, and independently found sufficient evidence for both convictions.