State v. Kunze

David Wayne Kunze appeals his convictions for aggravated murder and other crimes. The principal issue is whether the State’s witnesses could opine, based on the relationship among some of the anatomical features of the external ear, that Kunze was the probable and likely source of a latent earprint discovered at the scene. Other issues are whether two police officers could opine that the crime scene might have been staged to look like a burglary, and whether the trial court properly restricted the cross-examination of a jailhouse informant. We reverse and remand for new trial.

In the early…