Ana Maria Cardona v. State of Florida

Ana Maria Cardona, who was twenty-nine years old at the time of the crimes, was found guilty of the 1990 first-degree murder and aggravated child abusé of her three-year-old sony Lazaro Figueroa. Car-dona appeals her convictions and the death sentence imposed for the murder. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla, Const.

We are compelled to vacate Cardona’s convictions and remand for a new trial based on the pervasiveness and the cumulative effect of the prosecutor’s numerous improper closing arguments in the guilt phase, which repeatedly crossed the line this Court has clearly…