The clerk hasn’t update the abstract yet, but according to Judge Margaret Steinbeck’s calendar, the Robert Dunn / Cape Coral Day Care Killing trial is slated to start tomorrow morning. The State is seeking the Death Penalty for pre-meditated, First Degree Murder. Mr. Dunn allegedly shot his estranged wife in front her class of small children. The State has charged both pre-meditated murder and felony murder, that is: that the murder occurred in the course of a burglary. If either of those aggravators are proven, he can be convicted of the capital offense of First Degree Murder, and therefore be subject to the death penalty.
The State has also charged him with Armed Burglary, and Child Abuse, for committing murder with a firearm in proximity to the aforesaid children. These other offenses are among the aggravators that the State will use to say the death penalty is appropriate.
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