State v. Simms

OPINION

CONTRERAS, Judge.

Following a jury trial, defendant Richard Joseph Simms was convicted of three counts of sale of narcotic drugs, class 2 felonies. The trial court sentenced defendant to a fourteen-year term on each count and ordered that the terms be served concurrently. Defendant appeals from his convictions and sentences. He argues that the trial court abused its discretion in denying the motion for a mistrial that was made after an undercover police officer testified that he and his partner had initially contacted defendant because they had information that he was selling narcotics.…