State v. Bell

OPINION

E. RILEY ANDERSON, J„

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J., and ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.

We granted this appeal to determine the following issues: (1) whether the district attorney general abused his discretion by failing to consider and weigh evidence favorable to the defendant before denying the defendant’s request for pretrial diversion; and (2) whether the trial court erred in upholding the denial of pretrial diversion despite the district attorney general’s failure to consider and weigh evidence favorable to the…