Wright v. State

On direct appeal, the Supreme Court reversed Appellant’s convictions for two counts of first-degree murder and vacated his two death sentences, holding that the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to sustain the convictions. The evidence of guilt presented at trial was wholly circumstantial. The court held that although the facts established at trial supported a “strong suspicion of guilt,” they were not inconsistent with innocence and that the evidence did not establish “a reasonable and moral certainty that the accused and no one else committed the offense[s] charged.” Lindsey v. State, 14 So. 3d 215 (Fla. 2009)(quoting Frank v. State, 163 So. 223 (Fla. 1935)). View "Wright v. State" on Justia Law