Adkins v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Adkins’s convictions for three counts of drug dealing, holding that the chain-of-custody instruction accurately stated the law and did not prevent him from arguing that police carelessness created reasonable doubt. The court also rejected Adkins’s due-process challenge to the Allen charge, declining to reconsider its prior approval of a materially similar instruction that referred to the burdens and resources of a retrial.