State v. Jones

The Court of Appeals reversed Abdul Jones’s convictions for various crimes because the trial court had denied him discovery of the records of an internal police investigation. On remand, the trial court reviewed the requested discovery, determined that it would not have changed the outcome of the trial, and on that basis left the original convictions intact. Jones appealed a second time, arguing that the trial court had failed to follow the Court of Appeals mandate. The Court of Appeals affirmed. We reverse that second decision, concluding that the first Court of Appeals decision, by…