Ungray Lamar Murray v. State

Ungray Murray appeals his conviction for sexual battery, contending the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress DNA evidence obtained pursuant to a search warrant because the affidavit in support of the warrant contained intentional misstatements and omissions. While the affidavit contained several misleading statements, we nevertheless affirm for two reasons. First, under the inevitable discovery doctrine, since the DNA evidence recovered from the crime scene matched Murray’s DNA as uploaded to the nationwide CODIS registry, Murray’s DNA connection to the victim would eventually…