State v. Miller

ESPINOSA, Judge.

¶ 1 In this special action, the State of Arizona seeks relief from the respondent judges’ orders precluding the state from presenting voice recognition testimony at trial. 1 The question raised is whether the respondents abused their discretion in precluding the state’s witness from testifying in the underlying criminal proceedings against the defendants, real-parties-in-interest herein, that, having monitored and transcribed numerous telephone conversations during a wiretap investigation, she was familiar with the defendants’ voices and was able to identify them individually…