State v. Jones

Mario Channel Jones appeals his conviction for delivery of cocaine, arguing that the trial court erred in denying Jones’s motion to sever after erroneously admitting evidence of his co-defendant’s prior arrests and by admitting Jones’s unemployment records to support an inference that he derived income from selling drugs. He also alleges that there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction. We affirm.

FACTS

On February 5, 1996, at approximately 4 p.m., Seattle Police Officer Melvin Britt, positioned on the top floor of the Senior Center at the intersection of Rainier Avenue and Holly…