State v. Hamilton

JAMES EDWARD WELSH, Judge.

Alphonso William Hamilton appeals the circuit court’s judgment convicting him of domestic assault in the third degree, resisting arrest, and assaulting a law enforcement officer. He claims that the circuit court erred in enhancing his domestic assault conviction from a class A misdemeanor to a class D felony because he did not have the requisite number of prior convictions for enhancement. He also claims that the circuit court plainly erred in not ordering a mistrial sua sponte when the State, during its closing argument, commented upon his failure to produce…