Miller v. State
The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the convictions and death sentences of Everett Miller for the execution-style murders of two Kissimmee police officers. The Court rejected challenges to the admission of Miller's anti-police, anti-white, and Moorish-sovereign Facebook posts and related expert 'expository' testimony as motive evidence for the CCP aggravator, upheld the trial court's exclusion of diminished-capacity mental health evidence during the guilt phase, and rejected a challenge to the timing of victim impact video evidence presented during penalty-phase rebuttal (an issue of apparent first impression).
Key facts
- Everett Miller was convicted of execution-style murders of two Kissimmee police officers and sentenced to death.
- At trial, the State introduced Miller's anti-police and racially charged Facebook posts along with expert testimony about an extremist belief system to establish motive for the crime.
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Why it matters
This decision is significant for capital and other criminal practitioners because it addresses several issues with limited prior Florida precedent: (1) it clarifies that non-opinion 'expository' expert testimony… — full analysis with a trial
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