Opinion ID: 2546228
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Failure to Instruct on Lack of Parole Eligibility for Firearm Enhancement was Due Process Violation

Text: Appellant's third point for reversal centers on the trial court's failure to instruct the jury on the lack of parole eligibility on the firearm enhancements to his sentences. We are precluded from reaching the merits of this argument because Appellant did not proffer an instruction to the circuit court. In order to preserve for appellate review any objection to the trial court's failure to give an instruction, it is Appellant's burden to proffer the instruction to the trial court and then to include the proffered instruction in the record and abstract. Robertson v. State, 2009 Ark. 430, 347 S.W.3d 460; Wallace v. State, 326 Ark. 376, 931 S.W.2d 113 (1996). While there was indeed some discussion below concerning the eligibility of parole or lack thereof when multiple firearm enhancements are involved, despite Appellant's contention to the contrary, there was never any instruction on the subject proffered to the circuit court. We simply will not consider any argument on appeal that the circuit court erred in failing to give an instruction when that instruction was never proffered to it. Davis, 368 Ark. 401, 246 S.W.3d 862.