State v. Singleton

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Justice.

We granted review in this case at the state’s request, in order to review a ruling by the Court of Criminal Appeals allowing the trial court to force unwilling police witnesses to submit to pretrial interviews with defense counsel.

The defendant, James “Jap” Singleton, was convicted of selling marijuana to four undercover police officers. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction, finding that the trial court had prejudiced the defendant by refusing to grant him interviews with the state’s only witnesses, the undercover agents. As relief, the intermediate…