Barrera v. State

DAVIS, Justice.

[¶1] Mario Barrera appeals his felony, conviction for taking a controlled substance into a jail.1 The statute governing that offense, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 6-5-208 (LexisNexis 2017), proyides in pertinent part, “Except as authorized by a person in charge, a person commits a felony ... if that person takes or passes any controlled substance or intoxicating liquor into a jail[.]" We affirm.

ISSUES

[¶2] Barrera raises three issues. We restate and rearrange them as follows.

I. Can an arrestee, whose presence at a jail is involuntary, nevertheless voluntarily take controlled substances…