Thompson v. State

WELCH, Judge.

Damien Eibe Thompson was convicted of possession of a controlled substance, dihydrocodeinone, a violation of § 13A-12-212, Ala.Code 1975. Thompson was sentenced to five years in prison. The trial court also fined him $2,000 as a subsequent offender pursuant to the Drug Demand Reduction Assessment Act and ordered him to pay a $100 assessment to the Forensic Sciences Trust Fund.

The trial was scheduled for August 1, 2007; however, Thompson’s attorney had a conflict because he was scheduled to be in another trial in another county that same day. The Coffee Circuit Court granted a…