State v. Caughron

I believe that this case should be remanded for a new trial because of unwarranted interference with the defendant’s right to due process — by the police, by the prosecution, and by the trial court. Hence, I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion.

The majority’s recapitulation of the evidence in this case demonstrates that the testimony of the defendant’s teenaged accomplice, April Ward, was not only crucial to the state’s case against Gary Caughron, it was the state’s case against him. The FBI developed no forensic evidence implicating Caughron, despite extensive testing on…