Miller v. State

The defendant appeals his conviction and sentence for robbery, burglary, kidnapping, and murder. He argues, among other issues, that the trial court erred in allowing handwriting experts to bolster their testimony by describing the peer review process. We agree and reverse.

Late one evening in 1999, two law enforcement officers, working as security guards, saw two nervous young men outside a mall. One of the officers approached them. One of the individuals, an employee of a restaurant inside the mall food court, said that he was concerned because one of his friends, a restaurant supervisor,…