North v. State

LUCAS, Judge.

The circuit court ruled that Shane North could not tell a jury he had been given permission to take his employer’s scrap materials for himself. That jury found him guilty of two counts of dealing in stolen property. 1 Because the circuit court erred when it ruled this testimony was inadmissible hearsay, we reverse Mr. North’s judgment of conviction and sentences and remand his case for a new trial.

Mr. North was a foreman involved in a dismantling project for a shuttered power plant, a job which entailed removing copper cables, electrical bus bars, rectifiers, and…