Lindsey v. State

CASANUEVA, Judge.

Nicholas L. Lindsey, Jr., appeals his judgment and corrected sentence for first-degree murder following the shooting death of St. Petersburg Police Officer David Crawford. Mr. Lindsey asserts that the trial court erred in four respects: by improperly admitting his confession, as it was obtained by improper coercion; by failing to exclude his confession and other evidence obtained after his arrest, as his arrest was without probable cause; by denying his motion for mistrial based on an improper comment made during the State’s closing argument; and by imposing an illegal…