Ex parte Pruett

DISSENTING STATEMENT

Alcala, J.,

filed a dissenting statement.

The legislature recently enacted three statutes addressing the inherently ques*539tionable nature of inmate testimony, the prejudicial impact of junk science, and the problems that occur when the state does not fully participate in discovery with the defense, and this snakebit case is riddled with each of those problems. I would grant the motion to stay this impending execution for a capital-murder conviction against Robert Lynn Pruett, applicant, on the basis that this court should fully consider the merits of his complaint that junk…