State v. Bowen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Six, J.:

This first-degree murder case considers: (1) whether the prosecutor violated the trial court’s order in limine on evidence of gang membership; (2) alleged abuse of trial court discretion in: (a) refusing to strike a police officer’s testimony; (b) refusing to grant the defendant’s motion for a mistrial when two jurors indicated that they had seen a newspaper article related to the trial; and (c) striking and prohibiting further cross-examination concerning the probationary status of an identification witness; (3) alleged error in refusing to…