Hernandez v. State

We have on appeal the judgment and sentence of the trial court imposing the death penalty upon Michael Albert Hernandez Jr. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. For the reasons expressed below, we affirm Hernandez’s convictions and sentences.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

According to the testimony at trial, in the fall of 2004, Hernandez and his wife, Stephanie Hernandez, moved from Mur-freesboro, Tennessee, to Milton, Florida. In Milton, Hernandez worked with Richard Hartman Sr.,1 one of his mother’s former husbands, and with Christopher Shawn Arnold, who was dating and had…