Supreme Court of Florida
Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. State of Florida
October 22, 2020
Summary
The court affirmed Craven’s first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. It held that the trial court properly denied Craven’s equivocal request for self-representation, rejected his peremptory challenge to a juror as pretextual, correctly instructed the penalty-phase jury, and properly admitted evidence concerning his prior violent felony. The court also upheld the HAC and CCP aggravators, found the sentence proportionate, and determined that competent, substantial evidence supported the conviction.