Starks v. State

Miller, Judge.

Following a jury trial, Kenneth Bernard Starks was convicted of possession of cocaine. He moved for a new trial on the grounds that the court erred in allowing the State to open and . conclude closing argument and in denying his motion for mistrial, which arose out of a query by the prosecutor into Starks’s criminal past. The court denied the motion for new trial, and Starks appeals, enumerating as error the same two grounds. In light of Starks’s strategic and frank admission to the possession charge at trial, any alleged error was harmless. We affirm.

Starks’s neighbor testified…