State v. Patterson

PUDLOWSKI, Presiding Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal arising out of the defendant’s conviction for possession of a controlled substance on the premises of a correction facility, § 217.360.1, RSMo 1986. The conviction was obtained in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County and the defendant was sentenced to a term of seven years imprisonment. On appeal the defendant contends the trial court erred in: (1) allowing into evidence a hand-rolled cigarette laced with cocaine; (2) overruling the defendant’s motion for a new trial because the prosecutor blatantly disregarded the trial court’s…