Terrance Tyrone Phillips, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Phillips's convictions for two counts of first-degree murder and related offenses, concluding that competent, substantial evidence supported both premeditated and felony murder convictions. It held that death was disproportionate because Phillips was eighteen, had borderline intellectual functioning and other substantial mitigation, and the murders were not among the most aggravated and least mitigated first-degree murders. The court remanded for life sentences on both murder convictions. Canady, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part, would have upheld the death sentences and concluded that the jury findings and stipulation satisfied the applicable aggravator requirement.