Rolle v. State

Andrew Rolle (“the defendant”) appeals his criminal convictions for first degree murder, attempted first degree murder, and attempted second degree murder on the grounds that the trial court abused its discretion by: (1) permitting the lead detective in the case to testify as to the defendant’s guilt; (2) denying the defendant’s motion for a mistrial after the State introduced irrelevant information about how one of the detectives in the case was fired after manufacturing evidence in an unrelated case; (3) allowing the State to introduce inadmissible hearsay testimony from two of the victims,…