Clark v. the State

McFADDEN, Judge.

After a jury trial, Cleveland Clark was convicted of armed robbery. He appeals, challenging the trial court’s exclusion of evidence of the victim’s prior first offender guilty plea and his trial counsel’s effectiveness. However, Clark has failed to show that the trial court abused its discretion in excluding the first offender evidence or that his trial counsel’s performance was prejudicial. Accordingly, we affirm.

Construed in the light most favorable to the verdict, see Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SCt 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979), the evidence shows that on the night…