AULT v. STATE

No. SC00-863.

866 So.2d 674 (2003)

Howard Steven AULT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied February 4, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Richard B. Greene and Jeffrey L. Anderson, Assistant Public Defenders, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, FL, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, and Melanie Ann Dale, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, FL, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

We have on appeal two convictions of first-degree murder and two sentences of death. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the convictions but vacate the death sentences and remand for a new penalty phase proceeding before a new jury.

FACTS

Howard Steven Ault was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two young sisters, eleven-year-old...

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