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The Courier at the ATM
Gavin v. State (2003)
Charge: Capital murder - shooting of a courier during a robbery at a bank ATMCourt: Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals (trial: Cherokee County Circuit Court)Docket: Death in Dixie
Did the State prove the accused, rather than his cousin, was the gunman?
The facts
On March 6, 1998, a 68-year-old contract courier was servicing an ATM at a bank in Centre, Alabama, when a man approached his van, shot him twice, pushed him into the passenger seat and drove off. A police investigator spotted the van and turned on his emergency lights; the driver stopped, got out, fired at the investigator and ran into the woods. The courier died at the hospital. A gun was later found and linked by ballistics to the shooting. The accused man had arrived in town in his cousin's car.
You have the facts the court had. Guilty or not guilty? Call it in the game with your friends, then see what the court actually decided. Wrong call, you drink.
Citation: Gavin v. State, Gavin v. State, 891 So. 2d 907 (Ala. Crim. App. 2003), cert. denied, Ex parte Gavin, 891 So. 2d 998 (Ala. 2004)
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