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Cite as 2010 Ark. App. 721 ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS DIVISION I No. CACR10-336 Opinion Delivered November 3, 2010 APPEAL FROM THE SEBASTIAN TERRY MONTEZ MOSS COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, FORT APPELLANT SMITH DISTRICT [No. CR-09-599B] V. HONORABLE STEPHEN TABOR, STATE OF ARKANSAS JUDGE APPELLEE REMANDED LARRY D. VAUGHT, Chief Judge Terry Moss entered a conditional guilty plea to multiple drug offenses, 1 reserving his right to appeal the Sebastian County Circuit Courts denial of his motion to suppress evidence. His motion sought to suppress the fruits of the search of his home, which revealed three hundred ecstasy pills, seventeen pounds of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, firearms, and cash. On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress, arguing that the affidavit that served as the basis for the search warrant was false, misleading, and defective. While Mosss addendum includes a copy of the motion to suppress and brief in support, we note that the record on appeal does not. Therefore, we must remand. 1 Moss pled guilty to possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, maintaining a drug premises, conspiracy to possess ecstasy with intent to deliver, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Cite as 2010 Ark. App. 721 Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-2(a)(8) (2010) provides: The addendum shall contain true and legible copies of the non-transcript documents in the record on appeal that are essential for the appellate court to confirm its jurisdiction, to understand the case, and to decide the issues on appeal. The addendum shall not merely reproduce the entire record of trial court filings, nor shall it contain any document or material that is not in the record. (Emphasis added.) We can sua sponte direct the parties to supply any omitted material by filing a certified, supplemental record. Rule 6(e) of the Arkansas Rules of Appellate Procedure-Civil 2 in pertinent part states: If anything material to either party is omitted from the record by error or accident or is misstated therein . . . the appellate court . . . on its own initiative, may direct that the omission or misstatement shall be corrected, and if necessary, that a supplemental record be certified and transmitted. See also West v. West, 362 Ark. 456, 457, 208 S.W.3d 776, 778 (2005) (per curiam). Accordingly, based on this deficiency, we remand the case to the trial court to supplement the record. Moss has thirty days from today to file the supplemental record with our clerks office. Remanded to supplement the record. GLOVER and BAKER, JJ., agree. 2 Rule 6(e) of the Rules of Appellate ProcedureCivil is made applicable to criminal cases by Rule 4(a) of the Rules of Appellate ProcedureCriminal, which states that matters pertaining to the correction or modification of the record on appeal shall be governed by the Rules of Appellate ProcedureCivil. 2
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