Roscoe v. State

Melton, Justice.

Tyshawn Roscoe was indicted for malice murder, felony murder, and hijacking a motor vehicle, and his trial date was set for April 27, 2009. Earlier, it had been discovered that Bernadette Davy, a firearms examiner for the State, had not been performing the required number of ballistics tests in each of her cases, and she was terminated for this breach of protocol. Davy had performed the testing on the alleged murder weapon in Roscoe’s case.

During pre-trial proceedings on April 24, 2009, the prosecutor informed the trial court that he intended to call George Stanley as a…