Blanks v. State

Appellant Dermarius Blanks was convicted by a Drew County jury of one count each of aggravated residential burglary, aggravated robbery, and theft of property valued at less than $1,000; he was sentenced to twenty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. On appeal, Blanks does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. Instead, he argues that the circuit court erred in (1) refusing to provide a remedy for a discovery violation, and (2) refusing to grant a mistrial for its unmerited rebuke of counsel in front of the jury. We affirm.

I. Mistrial Based on Discovery Violation

In his…