State v. Richard W. Joy, III

We withdrew our prior opinion by order and now substitute the following. In this consolidated appeal and cross-appeal, the State appeals the trial court’s order dismissing one count of an information that charged Richard William Joy, III with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and trafficking in cocaine while armed with a firearm, stemming from the same incident but severed for trial. The trial court ruled that collateral estoppel barred the State from prosecuting the felon-in-possession count because, while the jury found Joy guilty of armed trafficking, it found that he did not…