People v. Dye

Paul Dye was convicted on retrial of two counts of first-degree murder1 and two counts of possession of a firearm during commission of a felony.2 Dye’s first trial was declared a mistrial, with the jury voting eleven to one to acquit him on the first-degree murder charges.3 At the first trial the testimony of three witnesses — fellow members of a motorcycle club — provided the only evidence that Dye was the killer. At Dye’s retrial the prosecution did not produce these three witnesses. The trial court allowed assistant prosecutors to read the witnesses’ earlier testimony to the jury.

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