Twilegar v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “evidence of flight . . . after the fact of a crime is admissible as ‘being relevant to consciousness of guilt which may be inferred from such circumstances.’” (quoting Straight v. State, 397 So. 2d 903, 908 (Fla. 1981))
• noting that the defense counsel had enlisted the assistance of a mitigation specialist in a capital case
• noting that the defense counsel had enlisted the assistance of a mitigation specialist in a capital case
• holding that premeditation may be established by circumstantial evidence
• stating that a receipt is hearsay if “admitted for the truth of the matters asserted (the dates of the purchases, the amounts, the locations, and whether the purchases were made in cash)”
• finding evidence of the victim being shot at close range from a downward angle showed premeditation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).