David Snelgrove, 32, convicted of the June 25, 2000 robbing and murdering of a couple...
David Snelgrove, 32, convicted of the June 25, 2000 robbing and murdering of a couple...
David Snelgrove, 32, convicted of the June 25, 2000 robbing and murdering of a couple, won a new sentencing hearing from the Florida Supreme Court.
The court unanimously upheld his murder convictions but lifted his two death sentences because his jury had submitted a single 7-5 recommendation covering both killings. Jurors should have voted separately on each of the sentences, the justices wrote in an unsigned opinion.
A new jury will be impaneled to receive sentencing evidence and then make two recommendations, one each for the murders of Glyn and Vivian Fowler, 84 and 80.
The court unanimously upheld his murder convictions but lifted his two death sentences because his jury had submitted a single 7-5 recommendation covering both killings. Jurors should have voted separately on each of the sentences, the justices wrote in an unsigned opinion.
A new jury will be impaneled to receive sentencing evidence and then make two recommendations, one each for the murders of Glyn and Vivian Fowler, 84 and 80.
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- (Sources: The Associated Press, Daytona Beach News, 10/11/2005)