State v. Davlin

I. NATURE OF CASE

Clifford Davlin was convicted, pursuant to jury verdicts, of second degree murder and first degree arson. Davlin was found to be a habitual criminal and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder conviction and 20 to 60 years’ imprisonment for the arson conviction, the sentences to be served consecutively. Davlin appeals, claiming errors in the jury instructions, the State’s destruction of physical evidence, the admission of expert testimony on the cause of the fire, the exclusion of evidence proffered by Davlin intended to implicate another suspect, and the finding that…