State v. Carter

INMAN, Judge.

A trial court errs by allowing lay opinion testimony visually identifying a substance, crack cocaine, as a controlled substance. However, this error is not prejudicial when the State has presented expert testimony, based upon a scientifically valid chemical analysis, that the substance in question is a controlled substance.

Guss Bobby Carter ("Defendant") appeals from a judgment entered 23 February 2016 upon his convictions following a jury trial for possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of an open container of alcohol in the passenger area of a motor…