State v. Hall

MILLER, Justice:

We have consolidated Joey Hall’s second appeal from a first degree murder conviction in the Circuit Court of Wyoming County with his petition for a writ of habeas corpus also challenging that conviction. Both involve the question of whether his conviction must be reversed as a result of the State’s failure to disclose exculpatory evidence. For the reasons which follow, we find that a new trial is warranted.

On Hall’s first appeal, we remanded the case to the circuit court for a determination of whether his conviction for first degree murder should be reversed because the…