073 Florida v. Garner; Hawaii v. Garner

I’d like to say that I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what I’m going to share, but we’re two and a half years deep on this podcast, so we all know the truth. When you think about it, the lifestyle cultivated by military moves is actually kind of ideal for those drawn to murder. Take the Navy, for instance. Many of their warm water duty stations are popular vacation spots drawing tourists - looking specifically to Hawaii, Southern California and Florida and maybe a little less at Guam. Assignment to the locales are temporary and shifting.

In the last few years, it certainly appeared that one sailor lived up to that life, picking up an indictment for murder in Hawaii just weeks into a life sentence in Florida for the same crime.

I relied on information from WFTV, Action News Jacksonville, Hawaii Tribune Herald, Hawaii News Now, Law and Crime, the very brief appellate opinion in Florida, KHON, Honolulu PD, and Daily Mail.

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