James Lonnie Martin was found guilty of possessing marijuana, possessing methamphetamine, obstructing a police officer, and public drunkenness. He appeals: challenging the sufficiency of the evidence as to the charges of obstructing a police officer and public drunkenness; arguing that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress and in admitting evidence of a prior conviction; and asserting that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. For reasons that follow, we affirm. 1. In reviewing a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress, we construe the evidence in a manner most favorable to uphold the trial court’s findings and judgment.1 We accept the trial court’s factual findings if there is any evidence to support them, and we will not overturn its credibility determinations unless clearly erroneous.2 Viewed in this manner, the record shows that in the early morning hours of January 15, 2004, Deputy Weaver of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a noise complaint regarding an individual in a gray truck driving up and down a street. When Deputy Weaver arrived at the street, he could hear “extremely loud” music coming from a gray truck parked in a wooded lot. There was no house or mailbox on the lot, but there were four houses within approximately 100 yards of the truck. Deputy Weaver approached the vehicle and found Martin sitting in the driver’s seat with the door ajar, drinking a beer. The vehicle’s engine was not running. Martin was slurring his speech, and Deputy Weaver believed him to be “very intoxicated.” Deputy Weaver could see a twelve pack of beer on the seat next to Martin. In response to a request by Deputy Weaver, Martin turned down the volume of the radio, but refused to give the officer his driver’s license.
Deputy Weaver went to his vehicle and called his supervisor, Sergeant Hite. Martin raised the volume of his radio again. When Sergeant Hite arrived, the two officers returned to Martin’s vehicle and asked him for identification. Martin questioned the officers, stating that he did not need to provide identification because he was on his own land. Martin was drinking a beer, and Sergeant Hite, who was three or four feet away from the vehicle, could smell alcohol. Sergeant Hite asked Martin to exit his vehicle, but he initially refused. When Martin finally exited the vehicle, he had a beer can in his right hand and his left hand formed a fist. Martin, using profanity, threatened to attack Sergeant Hite. After repeatedly telling Martin to put down the beer can, Sergeant Hite knocked it out of Martin’s hand and forced him against the vehicle; Deputy Weaver handcuffed Martin.
