Opinion ID: 591630
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: John W. Stevens

Text: 23 Harold Robinson testified that John Stevens distributed crack to the street dealers and sold some himself too. On January 31, 1990, a narcotics officer saw Stevens drive out of the driveway of one of the Rice houses and then stop a short time later and make what appeared to be a drug sale to a young woman. When he was pulled over by police immediately thereafter, a bag containing one rock of crack cocaine was found in Stevens' mouth. 24 On September 6, 1990, several months after the defendants were indicted, 2 the police made a surveillance videotape of activities in front of the Rice houses. John Gist, one of the people shown in the videotape, narrated the videotape at trial. According to Gist's testimony, the tape shows a meeting between John Stevens and Gist during which Gist gave Stevens the proceeds of crack sales so that Stevens would give the money to Timmy Rice. 25 When the police conducted the raid on May 3, 1990, officer McNeely saw Stevens drop something as he approached Stevens. McNeely later found a bag of crack cocaine under Stevens' foot.