State v. Brown

The defendant, Sean D. Brown, appeals his convictions on four counts of the sale of a narcotic drug, see RSA 318-B:2 (2004) (amended 2008). He argues that the Superior Court (Groff, J.) erred in joining the charges under Superior Court Rule 97-A and in excluding evidence of a witness’s prior conviction to impeach his testimony under New Hampshire Rule of Evidence 609(a)(2). We affirm.

I

The record supports the following facts. The Nashua Police Department arranged to have an individual cooperate to purchase drugs from the defendant. The cooperating individual participated in controlled buys on…