State v. Woodfin

ALDEN A. STOCKARD, Special Judge.

Terry Woodfin was charged by information with selling marijuana to Police Detective Gerald Brindell (Count I) and to Police Detective John Schneider (Count II). He was found guilty by a jury of having made both sales, and he appeals from the ensuing judgment.

No challenge is made to the sufficiency of the evidence but a brief statement of the facts is necessary to a discussion of some of the issues.

Detectives Brindell and Schneider were employed by the St. Louis County Police Department and assigned to the Bureau of Drug Abuse of the Greater St. Louis Narcotics…