Sanchez-Torres v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty to first-degree murder and armed robbery and waived a penalty-phase jury. After penalty-phase proceedings in front of the trial judge, the trial court sentenced Defendant to death. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions and sentence of death, holding (1) Defendant's guilty plea was knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily entered; (2) any possible error in the trial court not considering polygraph results as mitigating evidence was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt; (3) the trial court did not err in not giving significant weight to the mitigator of Defendant's age, which was nineteen years old at the time of the crime; and (4) the death sentence in this case was proportional.
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