State v. Sterley

HUNTLEY, Justice.

This case presents two issues. The first is whether the trial court’s allowance of electronic recordings as substantive evidence deprived defendant of his sixth amendment confrontation rights. The second issue is whether the trial court erred in sentencing Ronald Lee Sterley for two separate crimes which arose out of the same act.

Ronald Lee Sterley was known as a cocaine source within the Coeur d’Alene area. William Caldwell, who was working as an informant for the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement, contacted Sterley by telephone in the presence of Officer David Kane who…