State v. Sallis

NEUMAN, Justice.

Defendant, Reginald Henry Sallis, challenges his convictions for drug possession and eluding police on grounds that the State’s case included evidence gathered from Sallis’ application for appointed counsel and pretrial release interview. Although we question the desirability or necessity of relying on such proof in the ordinary case, we find no error warranting reversal here. We affirm.

I. A jury could have found the following facts. In March 1996, Waterloo police followed up on a tip from a confidential informant that Sallis possessed crack cocaine to sell. As a marked police…