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June 3, 2015
Ana Maria Cardona v. State
Case Number(s):
SC11-1446
SC11-1446
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Summary:
Miami-Dade County
Ms. Cardona was convicted of aggravated child abuse and the first-degree murder of her 3-year-old son, Lazaro Figueroa, whose body was found abandoned in 1990. She was sentenced to death but this Court later vacated her conviction and sentence and ordered a new trial. At the retrial, Ms. Cardona was convicted again. The jury voted 7-5 to recommend a death sentence and she was, for a second time, condemned to death. This is her direct appeal of that sentence.
Ms. Cardona was convicted of aggravated child abuse and the first-degree murder of her 3-year-old son, Lazaro Figueroa, whose body was found abandoned in 1990. She was sentenced to death but this Court later vacated her conviction and sentence and ordered a new trial. At the retrial, Ms. Cardona was convicted again. The jury voted 7-5 to recommend a death sentence and she was, for a second time, condemned to death. This is her direct appeal of that sentence.