Legal Opinion
United States v. Snyder
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 25, 2017No. 16-3779PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Paige Mars was murdered late in the evening of Sunday, April 5, 2015, in the sanitation district of Decatur, Illinois. Her body was found the next day near the wastewater lagoons. She had been shot five times with a shotgun at point-blank range. She was nineteen years old. Earlier that weekend, Mars had driven the getaway car for two men who robbed a convenience store. One of those men was defendant Kelton Snyder. Shortly after the robbery, Snyder and his accomplice became nervous that Mars would disclose their crime to the police, so they decided to murder her. After…
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