921 So. 2d 560 - Snelgrove v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “independently review the evidence to determine whether sufficient evidence exists to support a first-degree murder conviction.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Delgado v. State · 3 So. 3d 1108 - Murray v. State

2. “grounds for withdrawal are insufficient.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 78 So. 3d 1305 - Johnson v. State · 991 So. 2d 971 - Scott v. State

3. “On Sunday, June 25, 2000, Glyn and Vivian Fowler were found dead in their home. The elderly couple had been brutally beaten and stabbed to death, as evidenced by multiple fractures and stab wounds spread throughout their bodies. Ultimately, Vivian died from a stab wound to the heart, and Glyn died of a brain injury caused by blunt force trauma to the head. Evidence at the crime scene and in the surrounding area linked David Snel-grove, the twenty-seven-year-old nephew of one of the Fowlers’ neighbors, to the murder. Snelgrove had recently moved in with his aunt and his cousin, Jeff McCrae, after being expelled from a drug rehabilitation program. Blood droplets matching Snelgrove’s DNA were found throughout the house, as were bloody fingerprints and footprints matching Snelgrove’s. A trained bloodhound followed a scent from the blood on the Fowlers’ broken window to Snel-grove, and the police recovered a knife in the woods next to the Snelgrove home with blood matching Snelgrove’s DNA. Snelgrove denied any involvement with the murder. On the day the Fowl-ers’ bodies were discovered, the Flagler County Sheriffs Office questioned Snel-grove about his activities that weekend and the cause of the cut on his hand. Snelgrove claimed he and Jeff McCrae had spent Friday evening at Don Silva’s home. Around 12:30 a.m., he and McCrae left Silva’s together, and Snel-grove claimed he spent the rest of the night at home. He attributed the cut on his hand to an accident that occurred on Mond”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 107 So. 3d 242 - Snelgrove v. State