Opinion ID: 2174661
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Heading: grant's trial

Text: In the State's case against Grant, 49 photographs taken by officers during surveillance of Edwards' pickup and D.J.'s car were introduced, depicting Grant and Roddy at the scene. Also, the tape-recorded conversation involving Grant, Roddy, Edwards, and Haiar in the pickup was played for the jury, who heard various remarks by Grant and Roddy regarding their involvement in the cocaine sale to Haiar. Also, the several pieces of crack in the Casey's cellophane or plastic wrapping (exhibit 50) were identified by Roddy as the cocaine wrapped in a little cellophane envelope by Grant inside Edwards' pickup before Roddy left to deliver the $250 to D.J. Additionally, Haiar identified exhibit 50 as the crack and its wrapping which Grant handed to Haiar in the pickup. According to Haiar, Grant never received any piece or rock out of the cocaine which Roddy brought from D.J.'s car, the same cocaine that Roddy handed to Grant, who wrapped and passed the cocaine to Haiar. After the State rested, Grant did not present evidence. During the conference on proposed instructions, Grant's lawyer requested that the court give an instruction on possession of cocaine, that is, an instruction regarding simply possession of a controlled substance ... in addition to ... the delivery of a controlled substance. The court declined to give Grant's requested instruction on possession of cocaine because the requested instruction was not appropriate under the facts and circumstances in evidence in this case. The jury returned its verdict that Grant was guilty of unlawfully delivering a controlled substance (cocaine). See § 28-416(1).