So.2d 219, 221 (Fla.1991), suffered from bipolar affective disorder, manic type with paranoid features, among other mental problems. To summarize, as found by the trial court, this case involves one of the most serious aggravators and less than substantial mitigation. It is not this Court’s function to reweigh these aggravating and mitigation circumstances. See Merck, 975 So.2d at 1065. The death sentence here is proportionate when compared to other death penalty cases. See, e.g., Butler, 842 So.2d 817; LaMarca, 785 So.2d 1209. Additionally, although the majority did not address it, Ballard’s claim that his death sentence is unconstitutional under Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584, 122 S.Ct. 2428, 153 L.Ed.2d 556 (2002), is without merit. See Porter v. Crosby, 840 So.2d 981, 986 (Fla.2003) (<HOLDING>); Butler v. State, 842 So.2d at 834 (upholding
recognizing a claim that the sentence exceeded the statutory maximum holding that conspiracy to commit murder is not lesserincluded offense of firstdegree murder holding the death sentence proportional for the firstdegree murder conviction where only the hac aggravator was found holding statutory maximum for prior conviction is the potential maximum sentence defined by the applicable state criminal statute not the maximum sentence which could have been imposed against the particular defendant  according to the states sentencing guidelines holding in asapplied challenge that death is the statutory maximum sentence for firstdegree murder