Mark H. Wilson v. State of Florida

Summary

The court affirmed Wilson’s two first-degree murder convictions, death sentences, and consecutive life sentence for burglary while armed. It held that the evidence supported submission and finding of the cold, calculated, and premeditated aggravator, and that the trial court acted within its discretion in evaluating mitigation and instructing the jury. The court also rejected Wilson’s challenges to victim-impact evidence, special penalty-phase instructions, the death-penalty framework, jury qualification, and the sufficiency of the evidence.