Also in Exhibit 108 was a copy of the written advisement of rights given to the defendant at the time of his arrest, indicating that he had been charged with sexual assault in the first degree, and had been advised of his rights and had posted $10,000 bail. 16-11-103(1)(b). The Supreme Court of New Jersey cogently and succinctly articulated the fundamental flaw in the instruction under consideration here: State v. Biegenwald, 106 N.J. 13, 524 A.2d 130, 156 (1987). It is important to define the type of proportionality review which the defendant urges is required by our constitution. The legislature's quick response to Furman, in adopting a death penalty statute, was invalidated by this court in People v. District Court, 196 Colo. 401, 586 P.2d 31 (1978), because the statute did not sufficiently allow the defendant to present mitigating circumstances as required by the United States Supreme Court's decision in Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586, 98 S. Ct. 2954, 57 L. Ed. Nevertheless, according to the majority, if the trial court had properly limited the unconstitutionally vague terms to include only those murders which were conscienceless or pitiless, and were unnecessarily torturous to the victim, the jury under the facts of this case would have returned a verdict of death. 3d 604, 247 Cal. Such consecutive sentences might have convinced the jury, the defendant argues, that death was not an appropriate sentence, particularly as it considered the statutory mitigating circumstance that "the defendant [was] not a continuing threat to society." Here, because the prosecution declined to consent to defendant's attempted waiver of his right to a jury trial, the court properly denied the defendant's motion. 867, 897-98, 750 P.2d 741, 771-72, cert. Zant v. Stephens, 462 U.S. 862, 885, 103 S. Ct. 2733, 2747, 77 L. Ed. Second, if the jury finds that at least one statutory aggravating factor exists, the jury must then consider whether any mitigating factors exist. 2d 913 (1976) (Stewart, Powell, and Stevens, J.J.), which upheld a Florida aggravator of "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel" on the basis of the Florida Supreme Court's construction limiting the aggravator to murders which are "conscienceless or pitiless" and "unnecessarily torturous to the victim." 2d 772 (1984); State v. Griffin, 756 S.W.2d 475 (Mo.1988), cert. Ingrid Ruth Davis, 63, passed away Friday evening, November 14, 2008 at Rex Hospital. [2] Following extended jury selection involving a venire of 105 members, a jury was selected and the trial of the guilt phase went forward over the defendant's objections that he wished to waive a jury trial and to require the judge alone to hear the case. First, as noted above, we reject defendant's suggestion that harmless error analysis is inapplicable in capital cases. (1986). 16-11-103(6)(e), 8A C.R.S. To determine such intent we first look to the language of the statute. [17] As the numerous statutes cited by the defendant demonstrate, the legislature had such narrowly drawn statutes available as models had it wished to follow the lead of those states.[18]. Instruction No. Enmund, 458 U.S. at 788-89, 102 S. Ct. at 3372.[20]. The defendant argued at trial that the term "under sentence of imprisonment" does not include the period in which a defendant is on parole following his release from prison. The Court compared the Gathers case with Booth: Gathers, 109 S. Ct. at 2210-11. We need not determine here whether the definitions adopted by the legislature, not in effect at the time of May's murder, sufficiently narrow these statutory terms. Under our statutory scheme, the jury must find the existence beyond a reasonable doubt of one aggravator in order to proceed to the weighing of aggravators and mitigators. The arguments which the defendant offers here are nearly identical to the arguments offered in Gregg and rejected by the Court. The defendant argues that the use by the prosecutor of six peremptory challenges to remove jurors who had expressed reservations about the death penalty denied the defendant his right to be tried by an impartial jury as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and by Article II, Sections 16 and 25 of the Colorado Constitution. As long as the juror, despite his reservations about capital punishment, could properly determine the question of guilt, he could not be challenged for cause. Wilson v. People, 743 P.2d 415 (Colo.1987). Ingrid was born in Weilberg Germany on March 7, 1939. The use of the clarifying term "including" as well as our prior precedent holding that the period of parole is part of the period of the sentence, leads us to the conclusion that the period of parole is included in the phrase "while under sentence of imprisonment. In any case, a 43-year-old man named Preston Lee Rogers was pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. In fact, Zant v. Stephens, 462 U.S. 862, 103 S. Ct. 2733, discussed above at 177-178, suggests overlapping aggravators do not raise a constitutional objection. See, e.g., People in re D.G.P., 194 Colo. 238, 570 P.2d 1293 (1977); Godfrey v. People, 168 Colo. 299, 451 P.2d 291 (1969); Mitchell v. People, 24 Colo. 532, 52 P. 671 (1898). (1986), the trial court instructed the jury on the aggravating factor listed in subsection 16-11-103(6)(a), 8A C.R.S. Explore Life Stories, Offer Condolences & Send Flowers. The defendant was convicted by the jury of all of the charges, and the court, pursuant *170 to section 16-11-103, 8A C.R.S. Also, his counsel stated in closing argument that "if [he] thought that [the children] would have five seconds of peace by Gary Davis's death, [he] would choke the life out of him." (v. 2A, p. 52) The prosecutor's passing reference to the victim's family suggested to the jury that justice required more than "an apology" from the defendant. [40] Further, we find that even if a consecutive sentence would have been proper, the trial court did not err in postponing such sentencing until after the sentencing phase of the trial. In this case, we elect to proceed under the third approach. 2d 973 (1978); People v. Tenneson, 788 P.2d 786, 791 (Colo.1990). Lettre Pour Exprimer Sa Dception, After noting that the critical question is not what the Maryland Court of Appeals declared "the meaning of the jury charge to be, but rather what a reasonable juror could have understood the charge as meaning," id. 66-69) The sponsors' testimony cited by the defendant is unhelpful on this question. About Us, 17. The trial court submitted both the kidnapping statutory aggravator, 16-11-103(6)(d), and the felony murder aggravator, 16-11-103(6)(g), to the jury. In 1979, the legislature amended the 1974 statute to address the concerns raised *172 in People v. District Court. A California gang member, Quezada was convicted of three counts of first degree murder for killing three people at the Temptations Night Club. 2d 344 (1985); Sandstrom v. Montana, 442 U.S. 510, 99 S. Ct. 2450, 61 L. Ed. By its plain terms, the instruction created the potential for jury confusion on whether the jury verdicts were advisory only or indeed were final and binding decisions on the ultimate issue of life imprisonment or death. Shelley Gilman, Pozner Hutt Gilman Kaplan, P.C., Denver, for defendant-appellant. 2d 415 (1990), reversed the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in Parks v. Brown, 860 F.2d 1545 (10th Cir.1988), a case heavily relied upon by the defendant in his challenge to the anti-sympathy instruction in this case. Tenneson, at 795. When questioned during that initial session, Olivas told the court that he was "about right in the middle" on the question of capital punishment. Drake, 748 P.2d at 1245, n. 1. We see no basis for finding that execution by lethal gas is distinguishable from those other, permissible forms of execution. [31] The Supreme Court in Saffle v. Parks, ___ U.S. ___, 110 S. Ct. 1257, 108 L. Ed. (v. 2A, p. 56) If counsel could ask the jury for mercy under these circumstances, a reasonable juror hearing these instructions must have concluded that the purpose of offering the defendant's statement in allocution was for the jury to consider in passing sentence. E.g., Drake, *218 748 P.2d 1237 (death sentence reversed where jury instructions did not clearly and unambiguously apprise jury of their role "as the sole arbiter of whether a sentence of death should be imposed upon the defendant"); People v. Durre, 690 P.2d 165 (Colo.1984) (death sentence reversed where jury verdict manifested some uncertainty as to whether all jurors had unanimously agreed to death sentence and where instructions on aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not adequately inform jury of effect of verdict on ultimate question of life imprisonment or death). We are in no position, on appellate review of a cold record, to judge which of a juror's inconsistent or equivocal answers rings the most true; it is for the trial judge to perform such evaluation. Further, the defendant conceded in his own testimony that the reason he killed May was so that she could not be a witness against him. In closing argument, as well, the prosecutor told the jury that unsworn statements are not evidence. See also McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279, 307, 107 S. Ct. 1756, 1774, 95 L. Ed. (1986), provides: After receiving the presentence report and before imposing sentence, the court shall afford the defendant an opportunity to make a statement in his own behalf and to present any information in mitigation of punishment. 3825 Airport Road, Colorado Springs, CO. OBITUARY Ingrid E. Woods April 30, 1934 - December 27, 2011. All rights reserved. 2d 1065 (1977); State v. Rust, 197 Neb. Booth, 482 U.S. at 508, 107 S. Ct. at 2536. 2d 186, 193 (Fla.1984); Francois v. State, 407 So. We reject defendant's argument. *196 In Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320, 105 S. Ct. 2633, 86 L. Ed. Although, as stated by her friends, Davis was a brave girl. [29] Allocution is not a fact to be proved or disproved. Following the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S. Ct. 2726, 33 L. Ed. We reject the defendant's argument. The defendant concedes that a per se challenge to capital punishment was rejected by the United States Supreme Court in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 96 S. Ct. 2909, 49 L. Ed. Further, in other contexts we have not adopted an analysis of our constitutional provision forbidding cruel and unusual punishment which differs from that followed by the United States Supreme Court with respect to the Eighth Amendment. 2d 841 (1985). 2d 271 (1989) (court rejects "doubling up" argument for aggravators "murder of a witness" and "murder in the course of kidnapping"). People v. Tenneson, 788 P.2d 786 (Colo.1990). 2d 235 (1983), the majority determines that because the same evidence would have been admissible to establish other aggravators, the prosecutor's references to that evidence did not constitute reversible error. I am unpersuaded by the majority's contention that this aggravator was intended to include persons on parole. Maj. op. 530, 541-42, 763 P.2d 1269, 1281 (1988), cert. I couldn't say until I actually get there. I'm here. The majority, however, concludes that the doubling up of aggravators "is not legally significant" because the jury was instructed that it is the weight assigned to each aggravating factor, rather than the number of aggravating factors, that is to be considered. See Adamson v. Ricketts, 865 F.2d 1011 (9th Cir.1988) (Arizona statutory scheme requiring imposition of death sentence when one or more aggravating circumstances exist and "there are no mitigating circumstances sufficiently substantial to call for leniency" violates Eighth Amendment by creating a presumption of death and unduly limiting consideration of mitigating factors); Jackson v. Dugger, 837 F.2d 1469 (11th Cir.1988) (finding unconstitutional a jury instruction which stated that death should be presumed as the appropriate penalty unless mitigating circumstances outweigh proven aggravating circumstances) cert. Ultimately, the jury sentenced the defendant to death not because the defendant was a party to an agreement to kill, but rather because he, in cold blood, brutally murdered Virginia May. Our review of the record indicates that the prosecutor did not make such statements to the jury and the statements the prosecutor did make could not be fairly characterized as implying the attitude suggested by the defendant. If a trial jury was waived or if the defendant pleaded guilty, the hearing shall be conducted before the trial judge. at 193 n. 30. I also find untenable the majority's conclusion that this court should and can accurately psychoanalyze the state of mind of all twelve jurors had they considered a record that contained a narrowing instruction satisfying the standards articulated in Proffitt v. Florida, 428 U.S. 242, 96 S. Ct. 2960, 49 L. Ed. Caldwell, 472 U.S. at 323, 105 S. Ct. at 2636. He was released in August 2015. 2d 630 (1965). The evidence here fully supports the jury finding that the defendant was a party to an agreement with his wife that the couple would kill Virginia May and that she was in fact killed. A sentence of death cannot be carried out if the jury that imposed the sentence was chosen by excluding prospective jurors for cause simply because they voiced general objections to the death penalty or expressed some degree of conscientious reluctance to impose it. 2d 398 (1980) (Marshall, J., concurring) (it is not enough for reviewing court to apply narrowing construction of ambiguous statutory language; the jury must be instructed on the proper narrow construction of the statute). Included in Exhibit 108 was a "register of actions." 2d 498, 504 (La.1984), cert. Maj. op. 2d 929 (1976); Cook v. State, 369 So. See People v. Durre, 690 P.2d 165 (Colo.1984) (court reverses death sentence on basis that jury instructions did not clearly indicate the need for unanimity in imposing death sentence); People v. Drake, 748 P.2d 1237 (Colo.1988) (court reverses death sentence on basis that instructions to jury did not properly inform it that jury's decision would determine whether death would be imposed). (quoting State v. Clemons, 535 So.2d at 1364). I know I keep going back and forth, but it would certainly have to be really. The extent of the defendant's cooperation with law enforcement officers or agencies and with the office of the prosecuting District Attorney. A presentation of a bouquet of flowers is a special way of showing youre thinking of them and their loss, as the bright colours reflect the personality of the passed loved one. It began with a brief overview of the prosecution's burden: This statement of the law is consistent with Tenneson. If the drafters of the 1988 amendment thought the period of parole was separate from the period in which a person is under sentence of imprisonment, they could have used the words "and" or "as well as" or the words "or during." 2d 725 (1990), held that there is no federal constitutional impediment to an appellate court's affirmance of a death sentence in a "weighing state" where the jury is instructed on an unconstitutional statutory aggravator. The defendant was a principal in the offense which was committed by another, but the defendant's participation was relatively minor, although not so minor as to constitute a defense to prosecution. Becky Davis stopped briefly to drink iced tea with Sue MacLennan, while Gary Davis stayed in the car. Denver. We reject the defendant's contention. 2) was consistent with this court's recent decision in People v. 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