State of West Virginia Terry Allen Blevins

This is an appeal by Terry Blevins from an order of the Circuit Court of Mercer County, West Virginia, denying Mr. Blevins’ motion for a new trial subsequent to his conviction for two counts of first degree murder and one count of first degree arson. Mr. Blevins received a sentence of two consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders, as well as a sentence of twenty years for the arson, to run consecutively. Mr. Blevins contends that the trial court committed a multitude of errors, each of which will be addressed independently below. Subsequent to a…