State v. Rose

Defendant Zarik Rose was convicted, as an accomplice, of the purposeful murder of Charles Mosley. The State’s theory at trial was that defendant arranged for the murder while in jail and about to go to trial on earlier charges that he had attempted to murder the victim. In this appeal, we address whether evidence of defendant’s previous indictment and incarceration on the pending attempted murder charges was admissible in defendant’s trial for murder.

The disputed evidence was introduced at trial through several sources, two of which deserve to be highlighted. Larry Graves testified that,…