GARRETT, Judge.
Jerome Hodges appeals his trafficking in cocaine conviction and sentence. He claims that the trial judge should have granted his motion for a mistrial after the state, knowing his codefendant would choose not to testify against him, called the codefendant as a witness. We agree.
Several days before trial, the state learned that the codefendant "wasn't going to cooperate." The assigned prosecutor then asked the codefendant's attorney to "go...
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