Brooks v. Commonwealth

LAMBERT, Chief Justice.

Appellant, James S. Brooks, was convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine, trafficking in methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. His arrest followed police discovery of a methamphetamine lab in his residence. Appellant attempted to prove that others were living in his residence at the time and that he had no involvement with the lab. Despite this defense, a jury convicted Appellant and he was sentenced to twenty years for the manufacturing conviction and ten years for the trafficking conviction, to run consecutively for a total of thirty years. A…