[UPDATED] Did Gay Porn Star Josh Logan Just Get Away With Murder?

A Florida judge formally dismissed the case against him. One of his last roadblocks to freedom would have been an appeal of that ruling. Would have been.

The Washington Post first broke the story of the dismissal of the murder case that had Josh “Logan” Snavely behind bars for the past three years.

The lingering question was would county attorneys appeal the dismissal. Today, the Washington Post gave us the answer.

Prosecutors in Broward County, Fla., said Monday they will not appeal a judge’s ruling dismissing their murder case against a gay porn star accused of killing a Washington-area marketing executive in 2010. The decision clears the way for the release of John “Champ” Snavely after more than three years behind bars, and reopens the question of who fatally stabbed Sam Del Brocco in his Pompano Beach, Fla., townhouse.

A spokesman for the Broward state’s attorney’s office said Monday that even if prosecutors successfully appealed the dismissal by Circuit Court Judge Ilona M. Holmes earlier this month and took the case to trial, Snavely’s attorney would make the same motion to dismiss at the close of evidence and Holmes would likely grant it again. Holmes ruled that the circumstantial evidence against Snavely “is not enough” under Florida law for the case to go forward.

Snavely “is elated, obviously,” said his attorney, H. Dohn Williams. He was not immediately released because he still has holds for minor cases in St. Lucie County and in Texas, Williams said, but he expected those to be resolved soon since Snavely has already been in jail for three years. A Broward judge dismissing a murder case before trial “is so rare there’s not even a percentage, it’s below one percent,” Williams said. “Judges are reluctant to grant them. But in most cases, there is some dispute on the facts.”

[Original Post – February 17, 2017]
DNA and footprints lead to his arrest for the murder of Sam Del Brocco. After three years behind bars, a Florida judge didn’t throw the book at him: she threw out the case.

Sam Del Brocco was an Alexandria marketing executive found fatally stabbed in Florida in September 2010. He co-owned the PCI Communications in Alexandria. In 2010, he was found slain in his $850,000 townhouse in Pompano Beach. Initially, police called it a “grizzly puzzle.”

The puzzle picture became complete three years later when DNA taken in a South Beach drug bust tied both crimes to “muscular, 26-year-old man named John Snavely” aka – Josh Logan.

joshJosh Logan filmed gay porn for Jet Set in addition to bi and str8 porn for Score and the Bang Brothers Network.

murderhewrote1If this all sounds familiar, it is. Back in 2015, Logan was one of the notable inclusions in “After Jarec Wentworth, The Six Most Notorious Gay Porn Crimes”.

Seems that Sam kept his sexuality on the down low. As the MiamiNewTimes wrote, “in fact, Snavely was a well-endowed staple of South Florida’s booming adult film industry. Known as Joshua Logan, or “Champ” for his hewn physique and hefty male member, Snavely starred in scores of pornos — both straight and gay — filmed in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.”

In one of his best-known performances, he impersonated MTV meathead Ronnie Ortiz-Magro in the skin flick Jersey Score.”

josh logan  - 1Josh Logan met Del Brocco a gay strip club in Fort Lauderdale called “Johnny’s”. The two went back to the wealthy businessman’s Pompano Beach pad, where Snavely allegedly attacked Del Brocco with a knife. Investigators collected DNA from three floors of Brocco’s condo. The evidence led nowhere until the DNA from Logan’s 2013 arrest enabled law enforcement to connect the dots.

Trent-32Bringing us up to date, the Washington Post reported “Snavely’s defense lawyer, H. Dohn Williams, pointed out that DNA from hair on the knife used to kill Del Brocco was not Snavely’s, that DNA on a partially smoked marijuana joint was not Snavely’s, that bloody shoe prints in the house did not match Snavely, and that DNA and fingerprints in Del Brocco’s car came from someone else,” and filed a motion to dismiss.

Broward Circuit Court Judge Ilona M. Holmes held a hearing in December on Williams’ motion to dismiss, concluding, “This evidence is not enough.”

tumblr_ltgco5268o1qhg8vdo1_500She noted that “there are no eyewitnesses to the crime, the murder weapon was recovered with someone else’s hair and DNA on it. Shoe prints with victim’s blood were never matched to this defendant. Defendant has never confessed to committing this crime and no one has come forward attesting to any suspicious activity on Defendant’s part.”

Williams said “he did not know whether Broward prosecutors would appeal, but “I’m hoping they don’t. Theoretically, they could, but they have to ask themselves, ‘Do we really have a probable likelihood of a conviction?’”

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7 thoughts on “[UPDATED] Did Gay Porn Star Josh Logan Just Get Away With Murder?”

  1. This guy is a bad seed. In one of his gay porn movies he even bragged that his own father was doing hard time. These extremely sexy guys can be toxic. If their totally straight, they are certainly not going to have any feeling for another guy. Gay guys get caught up in their good looks, their musculature, their big penis, and fall in love. These straight guys that do this become very street wise, their charm doesn’t always work for a woman, but a lonely gay guy, attracted to handsome butch men? That a different story. The guy he’s attracted to, lays on the charm. Because if he’s straight, he’s only looking for one thing, money.

  2. If the evidence was false or inconclusive, man, that sucks for him… who knows if he’ll ever be able to show his face in public again.

  3. WHILE THIS GUY JOSH LOGAN IS SURELY NO ALTAR BOY THE EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE JUST DOESN’T HOLD UP. JUDGE HOLMES RECOGNIZED THIS AND MADE THE RIGHT CALL TO DROP THE CHARGES. JUDGE HOLMES IS BY NO MEANS A LIBERAL JUDGE WHO CODDLES CRIMINALS AND COMES DOWN HARD ON HARD CORE OFFENDERS.. FOR HER TO DISMISS THE CHARGES YOU CAN BE SURE THE NEEDED EVIDENCE WAS LACKING. JUSTICE PREVAILED IN THIS CASE.

  4. When I heard that his feet are size 13 but the bloody footprint was like a 10 or something, I knew that this was a bad case.

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