The defendant had a decent job and worked hard. The record shows no connection between his intelligence level and the murder. Intelligence is generally considered along with age as a mitigating circumstance. The cases that have evaluated intelligence independently have concluded that it is not a mitigating factor where there is evidence that the defendant is intelligent. The Court cited Henry and Atwood for this conclusion.
Low intelligence can be a mitigating factor.
The Court agreed with the trial court that the defendant's relatively high intelligence was not a mitigating factor.