State v. Scriven

HOWARD, Judge:

A jury convicted James Scriven of distributing cocaine and marijuana in violation of S.C.Code Ann. § 44-53-370 (Supp. 1999), and the trial court sentenced him to concurrent terms of twenty-seven years for the cocaine violation and fifteen years for the marijuana violation, together with a $50,000 fine. Scriven appeals his convictions, asserting the trial court erred in allowing impeachment based upon prior drug-related convictions under Rule 609(a)(1), SCRE, and in sentencing him as a third offender when the indictments did not give him notice of sentence enhancement by alleging…