Rodney Renard Newberry v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC18-1133 ____________ RODNEY RENARD NEWBERRY, Appellant, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. December 12, 2019 PER CURIAM. This case is before the Court on direct appeal from a resentencing.1 Rodney Newberry appeals his sentence of death for the 2009 first-degree murder of Terrese Pernell Stevens. For the reasons we explain, we affirm Newberry’s death sentence. I. BACKGROUND We set forth the following facts in Newberry’s first direct appeal: On December 28, 2009, Defendant [Newberry] set out to commit an armed robbery of a to-be-determined member of the…