A Taco Bell manager convicted of first-degree murder for killing one of the fast-food restaurant’s employees in Scott has won a new trial after his lawyer raised allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
Zairyre Simmons, 26, of Pittsburgh was sentenced in May to serve the rest of his life in prison with no chance for parole after a jury found him guilty of killing Dorian Carver, 32, of Harrison.
Last month, however, Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Bruce Beemer granted Simmons a new trial after prosecutors conceded some of the other crimes charged in the case — illegally carrying a stolen gun — were mishandled. Simmons’ lawyer argued that by pursuing charges they shouldn’t have, prosecutors cast his client in a negative light at the outset of the trial…