State ex rel. Plants v. Webster

The petitioner, Mark Plants, Prosecuting Attorney for Kanawha County, West Virginia, invokes this Court’s original jurisdiction in prohibition to challenge the March 8, 2012, ruling of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County barring the introduction of certain shell casings found at the scene of the crime and firearms and ammunition seized from a residence associated with respondent David Washington Kinney. The evidence was suppressed as a sanction for the State’s admitted failure to make the shell casings available to the defense for inspection and possible testing. Based upon the limited…