Crawford v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Agosti, J.:

The body of Gloria Joann Dugan, a woman with whom David Crawford was personally involved in a relationship, was discovered on March 25, 1997. She had been shot multiple times. After the police investigated her homicide, the district attorney charged David Crawford, on March 28, 1997, with murder with the use of a deadly weapon and burglary.

At a hearing on April 10, 1997, the justice of the peace lowered Crawford’s bail to $360,000.00. Crawford’s parents posted the bail and he was released that day. Crawford waived his right to have the preliminary hearing which…