State v. Meeks

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

A jury found defendant Bernard Meeks guilty of armed robbery and the trial court sentenced him to fifteen years’ imprisonment. Defendant contends on appeal that there was plain error in admitting into evidence the fact that he used a credit card stolen from the robbery victim. He contends this was evidence of an unrelated, subsequent crime. Since the evidence came in without objection and the point was not preserved in defendant’s after-trial motion, defendant limits his challenge to plain error under Rule 27.20(c), VAMR.

The state’s evidence was that defendant entered…