Case #1 - State v. Michael T.
State v. Michael T.
Several months ago, Michael, an eighteen year-old student at American High School, entered the school cafeteria with three loaded guns. Shooting into the crowd, he killed four students and the school resource officer, and he wounded twenty-two other students.
The State Attorney charged him as an adult according to Florida law, and he pled guilty to murder and attempted murder.
The State Attorney then conducted a second penalty phase trial, and the jury sentenced him to death.
The Boys State Supreme Court will hear the appeal of the sentence to death.
Interested City and County Attorneys may work together to argue their respective sides to the Supreme Court.
No member of the House or Senate may argue before the Court.
The ruling of the Supreme Court will stand.
If the Supreme Court upholds the death sentence, the Governor and two members of the Cabinet can grant clemency and commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.
