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Cite as 2013 Ark. App. 467

                  ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
                                        DIVISION I
                                       No. CR-13-118

VILAYCHANH PHENGTHAVY                              Opinion Delivered   September 4, 2013
                  APPELLANT
                                                   APPEAL FROM THE SEBASTIAN
V.                                                 COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, FORT
                                                   SMITH AND GREENWOOD
                                                   DISTRICTS
STATE OF ARKANSAS                                  [NOS. CR-2007-302, CR-2007-303,
                                  APPELLEE         CR-2007-304, CR-2007-943(b), G-CR-
                                                   2011-37]

                                                   HONORABLE JAMES O. COX,
                                                   JUDGE

                                                   SUPPLEMENTATION OF
                                                   ADDENDUM ORDERED

                                RITA W. GRUBER, Judge

       Appellant Vilaychanh Phengthavy’s suspended sentences for various drug-related

convictions were revoked in an order entered on December 19, 2012, and he was sentenced

to 124 years in prison with 94 years suspended. His sentences were revoked because he

committed the offense of delivery of methamphetamine, a violation of the terms and

conditions of his suspended sentences. On appeal, he contends that there is insufficient

evidence to support the revocation and that the State’s failure to notify him that his violation

was based on accomplice liability was fundamentally unfair. Because appellant has submitted

a brief without a proper addendum in violation of Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 4-2(a)(8)(A)(i), we order

appellant to submit a supplemental addendum.
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       The Fort Smith Police Department set up a controlled buy using a confidential

informant on September 24, 2012. The informant was wearing a video and audio recording

device. The informant had been given $100 in various bills whose serial numbers had been

recorded. The informant met a female, Mickayla Akins, in a Walmart parking lot. Ms. Akins

was in a white Chevrolet truck being driven by appellant. The informant got in the truck, and

appellant drove the truck around the parking lot while Ms. Akins sold methamphetamine to

the informant in exchange for the $100. After the informant got out of the truck and gave the

methamphetamine to the police, the police stopped appellant’s truck. Based on this incident,

the State filed a petition to revoke appellant’s suspended sentences.

       The video of the transaction was introduced into evidence and played for the court.

On appeal, appellant argues that he did not speak to or look at the confidential informant

during the transaction and merely drove the truck. To support his argument, appellant cites

a blank page in the addendum that contains a copy of the sticker for State’s Exhibit 1 but no

exhibit. State’s Exhibit 1 was the video recording of the transaction.

       Rule 4-2(a)(8)(A)(i) requires the addendum to include all items that are essential for

the appellate court to understand the case and to decide the issues on appeal, including

exhibits such as CDs and DVDs. Appellant’s addendum is deficient because it does not

contain the DVD of the transaction, which was relied on by the trial court and is being cited

by appellant as support for his argument on appeal. Accordingly, we order appellant to file a

supplemental addendum to provide the video exhibit to the members of the court within

seven calendar days from the date of this opinion.

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Supplementation of addendum ordered.

PITTMAN and WYNNE, JJ., agree.

The Lancaster Law Firm, PLLC, by: Clinton W. Lancaster, for appellant.

Dustin McDaniel, Att’y Gen., by: Brad Newman, Ass’t Att’y Gen., for appellee.

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