State v. Dunn

WARREN, S. J.

Defendant is charged with first-degree robbery and kidnaping arising from an aborted robbery of a convenience store and abduction of the store clerk. There is no significant dispute about the facts of the crime; the primary issue at trial will be whether defendant is the person who committed it. The state appeals the trial court’s pretrial rulings excluding evidence that, the state believes, tends to prove that defendant was the criminal. The trial court held that the non-expert evidence was irrelevant and excluded the testimony of a state expert. We affirm.

In February 1997, a…