Court Opinion

ID: 9505336
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 20:03:47.513426+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:24.102029
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RUCKER, J.,
concurring in part.
Exeept for that portion expressing the view that the weight to be given aggrava-tors and mitigators is not subject to a reasonable doubt standard, I fully concur with Justice Boehm's separate opinion. I continue to believe that before capital punishment can be imposed a jury must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the aggravating cireumstances outweigh the mitigating cireumstances. See Ritchie v. State, 809 N.E.2d 258, No. 49800-0011-DP-638 (Ind. May 25, 2004) (Rucker, J., dissenting in part).