In an incident that occurred on March 13, 2009, Willie Covington was charged with grand theft arising from shoplifting of groceries from Publix. There was a surveillance video of the theft, but it was not introduced at trial because Publix recorded over it in May, 2009. During closing argument, Covington contended that the absence of the video was a lack of evidence creating a reasonable doubt. During the state...
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