State v. Morgan

WALLACE, Judge.

The State petitions for a writ of certio-rari quashing the trial court’s order excluding certain audio recordings from admission into evidence at the trial of the defendant, Earnest Charles Morgan, Jr. We grant the petition and quash the order to the extent that it prohibits the State from offering into evidence the recorded audio conversations between Mr. Morgan and Maurice Walton.

I. THE FACTS AND THE PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The underlying proceeding in the trial court involves a pending re-trial of Mr. Morgan in circuit court case number 05-CF-21005 for one count of violating the…