Crain v. State

Willie Seth Crain, Jr., a prisoner under sentence of death, appeals the denial of his motion for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851,1 Through his postconviction motion, Crain challenges his capital murder conviction and sentence of death arising from the September 1998 murder of seven-year-old Amanda Brown. On direct appeal, this Court evaluated the circumstantial evidence of Crain’s guilt and affirmed his first-degree felony murder conviction, concluding that sufficient evidence existed that Crain killed Amanda in the course of a kidnapping with…