State v. Jones

EXUM, Justice.

This case presents two questions for review. The first is whether defendant’s motion for nonsuit at the close of all the evidence was properly denied. We conclude that it was. The second, raised by defendant’s motion under G.S. 15A-1418(a), is whether defendant is entitled to relief because of the prosecutor’s failure to provide him an SBI laboratory report containing potentially exculpatory material. We conclude that he is and, pursuant to G.S. 15A-1417(a)(l), 2 we order that he be granted a new trial.

The state’s evidence consisted of the testimony of two witnesses, Wallace…