Modeste v. State

Appellant was convicted for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of testosterone. The issues presented are whether the State established a sufficient corpus delicti in order to introduce appellant’s admissions and whether the State was permitted to admit appellant’s prior convictions. We find both issues to be without merit and affirm the convictions below.

The police executed a search warrant of an apartment which contained two bedrooms. One bedroom was designated the “blue room” and the other was called the “green room.” Inside the green room, a police officer found a…