Opinion ID: 2268037
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Heading: Defendant's Supplemental Pro Se Brief

Text: The defendant has filed a pro se brief as a supplement to the briefs filed by the public defender and additional counsel. This brief raises the following issues: (1) the refusal of the justice who passed upon his IADA claim to recuse herself; (2) the denial of his motion to dismiss because the state destroyed exculpatory evidence (the destruction of the Mercury Monarch by the wrecking company when it was unclaimed for eight days); (3) the denial of defendant's requests for transcripts of the testimony of certain trial witnesses and transcripts of certain preliminary hearing testimony to be furnished during the course of the trial; (4) the trial justice's permitting witness Kenneth Gammon to testify concerning the shotgun; and (5) the trial justice's allowing photographs into evidence. We have carefully considered defendant's arguments in support of these issues. In some instances we have commented in this opinion on similar arguments raised by defendant's attorneys. In respect to the defendant's arguments that were not raised by his attorneys, we consider them to be unpersuasive in establishing, in any instance, that either the motion justice or the trial justice committed prejudicial error.