State v. Barnes

1,BROWN, C.J.,

Defendant, Keith Lynn Barnes, was convicted of possession of cocaine and sentenced as a habitual offender to eight years at hard labor without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence. Defendant now appeals from that conviction. Finding no error, however, we affirm.

Facts

On June 29, 2000, Detective Triche Pass-man, assigned to the Monroe Police Department Jump Team (a narcotics interdiction unit), received a telephone call from a confidential informant (“Cl”). The Cl said that defendant, a convicted drug felon, wanted him to find a buyer for some cocaine defendant…