Tafero v. Dugger

juvenile offenses and unadjudicated criminal activity held admissible in penalty phase of capital murder case | defendant asleep in his car, when roused by police officer, shot and killed officer, then fled in officer’s patrol car; jury entitled to infer that killing was in perpetration of robbery | evidence sufficient where the defendant during the continuing course of conduct in which a murder is committed threatened the life of another and had the apparent ability and means of taking that person's life. | evidence is sufficient to support the aggravating circumstance “where a defendant during the continuing course of conduct in which a murder is committed, threatens the life of another and has the apparent ability and means of tatóng that person’s life.” | evidence is sufficient to support the aggravating circumstance "where a defendant during the continuing course of conduct in which a murder is committed, threatens the life of another and has the apparent ability and means of taking that person's life." | defendant created great risk of death when he killed the victim and ordered acquaintances who witnessed the killing to clean up and keep quiet and there was evidence the defendant would have shot these bystanders had they not cooperated | defendant created great risk of death when he killed the victim and ordered acquaintances who witnessed the killing to clean up and keep quiet and there was evidence the defendant would have shot these bystanders had they not cooperated