State of West Virginia, Plaintiff Below, Respondent v. Gary Lee Rollins, Defendant Below, Petitio — Workman, J…

Summary

The West Virginia Supreme Court affirmed Gary Lee Rollins’s first‑degree murder conviction, upholding the trial court’s admission of photographic evidence, victim statements, and Rule 404(b) evidence of prior domestic violence. Justice Workman’s concurrence praised the circuit court’s thorough hearsay and Confrontation‑Clause analysis, while Justice Loughry, in a separate concurrence, contested the majority’s reasoning on the prosecutor’s closing remarks but agreed on the result.