State v. Salts

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beier, J.:

Defendant Alan Salts appeals his conviction of indecent liberties with a child, claiming that the district court committed reversible error when it gave an Allen-type instruction to jurors before deliberations began.

K.D., a 15-year-old foster child, ran away from home after she was caught smoking in a bathroom at work. Deciding that she would walk ,to her boyfriend’s house, K.D. hitched a ride to QuikTrip to look at a map. Salts approached K.D. while she was reviewing the map.

Salts informed K.D. that her boyfriend’s home was too far away to…