State ex rel. Jones v. Knox Superior Court No. 1

ORDER

In July, 1999, the State charged Brian Jones with murder and rape. On March 16, 2000 — one week before March 23, which the trial court had designated as the final trial date — Jones’s attorneys, Dirk Carnahan and Shawna Dillon, moved to exclude the State’s DNA evidence on grounds that the State had been late in providing it in discovery; in the alternative, the attorneys moved for a continuance. On March 21, the trial court denied the defense attorneys’ request for continuance. However, the court ruled that no DNA evidence disclosed by the State after March 20 would be admissible and…