State vs. Marvin Woods

The defendant was convicted of the introduction of contraband into a penal institution, a Class C felony, for smuggling marijuana into the prison where he worked. The trial court sentenced him as a Range I, standard offender, to three years in the Department of Correction, with the sentence suspended, and the defendant placed on supervised probation for three years. Following the denial of his motion for a new trial, the defendant filed a timely appeal as of right to this court, alleging that the trial court erred in allowing a prior inconsistent statement to be introduced, in its instructions as to the statement, in concluding that the State sufficiently proved the chain of custody, and in ruling that trial counsel had not been ineffective. Based upon our review of the record and of applicable law, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.