State v. Berry

DAVIS, Justice:

Rodney Jason Berry, appellant herein and defendant below, appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of Raleigh County convicting him of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of use of a firearm, and sentencing him to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. In this appeal, Mr. Berry has assigned error as follows: (1) failure of the trial judge to disqualify himself; (2) improper preclusion of mitigating evidence; (3) insufficiency of the evidence; (4) erroneous admission of numerous photos; and (5) prosecutorial misconduct. After a careful…