State v. Hembree

HUDSON, Justice.

*3Defendant Danny Robbie Hembree, Jr. was indicted on 14 December 2009 for the first-degree murders of Heather Marie Catterton, Randi Dean Saldana, and Deborah Denise Ratchford. The trial court denied the State’s motion to join the Catterton and Saldana trials and defendant was first tried capitally for the Catterton murder, which is the matter at issue in this appeal. On 8 November 2011, the jury found defendant guilty of first-degree murder. After a capital sentencing proceeding, the same jury found two aggravating circumstances, both statutory. The first was that defendant…