Bell v. State

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Timothy Bell raises two issues in his appeal of his methamphetamine-distribution convictions. He first suggests it was inherently unfair for him to have been tried on drug charges wearing a red prison jumpsuit. But to have preserved a constitutional violation based on his trial attire, Bell would have had to have objected to wearing prison garb, which he did not. So he waived any clothing-based challenge to his two convictions.

¶ 2. Bell also contests the trial judge’s denial of the State’s request to nolle pros a drug count on which he was ultimately convicted.…