Dark v. State

| ¶Appellant Robert Thomas Dark was convicted by a Garland County jury.of possession of a controlled substance and sentenced as a habitual offender to fifteen years’ imprisonment and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. 1 He raises four points on appeal: (1) the State failed to prove that he possessed a “useable” amount of a controlled substance, (2) the trial court abused its discretion- using its local rule to cut off plea negotiations, (3) the trial court erred in denying his motion for a continuance and “in coercing him to accept appointed counsel,” and (4) the trial court erred by failing to…