Fla. Stat, (1981) - Florida State University College of Law

(5) W ilm Urgmn, the defendant's sister, testified that their father
beat their mther when he was drinking (T, 2355-2356) ; that the defendant
mt Elaine when he was 14 and Elaine was 16 (T, 2356-2357); that
Elaine got the defendant started using drugs (T. 2357-2358); that the
defendant and Elaine were mied when the defendant was 16 and Elaine
was pregnant (T.2358); that the defendant was chiefly a house-husband
while his wife worked (T. 2358-2359) ; that he supprted his sister,
financially a& amtionally, when she was in marital distress (T. 2359-
2360); that Elaine was the dminant figure in the household (T. 2361);
and that the defendant was a good and loving father to his children
(T. 2361).
(6) Eva Mae Sapp, a minister, testified that she had visited the
defendant in jail while the defendant was awaiting trial, at his
request, and that the defendant had a very sincere interest in religion.
(T. 2363-2364).
The defense introduced the written negotiated plea of Elaine
Parker, in which the state had dropped two first degree murder charges
and reduced the murder of Nancy Sheppard from first degree to second
degree, in exchange for a guilty plea and her promise to testify for
the state. (T. 2366). The defense introduced the indictmnt against
T0rn-y Grmver (T. 2377), the jury's advisory sentence for Groover
(T. 2378), and the sentence q sed by the lower Court on Graver.
(T. 2378).
These docunuents shaved that Groover had been mnvicted of
three counts of first degree murder, that the jury had reccmw.nd& life
for the mders of Padgett and Sheppard but death for the murder of Dalton,
and that the trial court had senkenced Grmver to death for the murders
of Padgett and Dalton and life for the mder of Sheppard.
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