Hampton v. the State

BARNES, Presiding Judge.

A jury convicted Justin Kyle Hampton of trafficking in methamphetamine, and the trial court sentenced him to serve twenty years in prison, followed by ten years on probation. He appeals, arguing that the trial court erred in denying his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him by refusing to let him call the State’s informant as a witness to testify regarding Hampton’s defense of entrapment, on which the trial court charged the jury. Hampton also argues that the trial court erred in refusing to allow him to see the transcript of the court’s in camera…