State v. Vance

¶1 The State appeals the trial court’s order dismissing with prejudice charges against Darin Richard Vance based on the State’s failure to produce federal agents for interviews. Based on a federal investigation, the State searched Vance’s home and charged him with various child-pornography-related offenses. The trial court authorized Vance to subpoena federal investigators for depositions and subsequently ordered the agents to submit to depositions. When the federal agents failed to comply, the trial court redacted the search warrant to remove all information obtained by the agents. The trial…