JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a teenage boy after an argument over loud music outside a Florida gas station wants a new trial.
The Florida Times-Union (http://bit.ly/1rbEGci) reports an attorney for 49-year-old Michael Dunn asked an appeals court Tuesday to throw out his murder conviction and life sentence.
Dunn, of Satellite Beach, was convicted of fatally shooting 17-year-old Jordan Davis of Marietta, Georgia, in November 2012 after a confrontation sparked over loud music coming from the SUV in which Davis was riding.
Attorney Terry Roberts argued for the new trial, saying prosecutors didn’t refute Dunn’s claim that Davis had threatened to kill him before the shooting.
Dunn was at the Jacksonville gas station after attending his son’s wedding, where he had been drinking.
Prosecutors say Dunn, who is white, fired 10 times into the vehicle carrying black teenagers.
___
Information from: The (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union, http://www.jacksonville.com
Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
I followed this case daily from start to finish and the dude is not only guilty, but not going to get out of it. Appeal away. He was shooting at the car as they were driving away.
I’m always amazed that something so standard and routine as a motion for a new trial, which is literally filed (or should be) after every guilty verdict, garners any attention let alone a headline. They’re always presented as shocking or audacious when they are nothing more than procedural.
Dunn should assert his original conviction was tainted by the fact the presiding judge was against wanton violence and murder, an obvious bias that hindered his defense. Call it the Trump Doctrine.
I don’t understand. That’s illegal in Florida?
I know, I was shocked myself. All he was doing was standing his ground. Or something.