State of West Virginia v. Charles Edward Bruffey

The petitioner herein and defendant below, Charles Edward Bruffey (hereinafter “Mr. Bruffey”), was sentenced on January 18, 2012, to a term of incarceration of ten to twenty years following his jury conviction for robbery. Mr. Bruffey asserts that the trial court committed four errors: (1) admitting the prosecution’s solicited testimony on Mr. Bruffey’s silence posCMiranda1 warning; (2) allowing Rule 404(b) evidence of a second uncharged bank robbery without an adequate McGinnis2 hearing; (3) violating Mr. Bruf-fey’s Sixth Amendment rights by permitting a police officer to testify about…