Yacob v. State

Michael M. Yacob, who was twenty-two years old at the time of the crime, was convicted of first-degree murder and armed robbery with a firearm in the May 2008 death of nineteen-year-old Moussa Maida. The trial court, in accordance with the jury’s recommendation, sentenced Ya-cob to death for the murder. This is Yacob’s direct appeal from his judgment of conviction and sentence of death. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.

We affirm the convictions for first-degree murder and armed robbery with a firearm, but we vacate the sentence of death because we conclude that a death…