Opinion ID: 1802018
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Text: In this case, the defendant-appellant, Emmett Stromas, Sr., a/k/a Goldie, age 46, appeals both his conviction in the Circuit Court of Forrest County on the charge of selling a controlled substance and his sentence as a subsequent offender to serve a term of 60 years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Stromas asserts the following errors: (1) The trial court erred in allowing a tape recording of the drug transaction into evidence without first requiring the State to properly authenticate it. (2) Stromas's federal and state constitutional right to confront the witnesses against him was violated. (3) Stromas's sentence of 60 years confinement to the Mississippi Department of Corrections violates the Eighth Amendment's Prohibition of Cruel and Unusual Punishment.