State v. Latina

Appellant was indicted for and convicted of a five count indictment for violation of the drug law. He appeals, assigning seven errors for review.

Detective Thomas Neelon of the Cleveland Police Department, responding to anonymous citizen complaints, conducted an undercover investigation directed against the appellant. Neelon adopted the pseudonym Thomas Goodman and effected the lifestyle of a high-rolling underworld figure to determine whether appellant was trafficking in cocaine.

Appellant was an employee of Rush Limousine. In a recorded conversation Jon Cornell, owner of the Rush Limousine,…