Opinion ID: 535165
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Detective Kanz

Text: 27 Kimbro also argues that Detective Kanz's testimony relaying the informant's sketchy description of the seller as a black male was inadmissible hearsay. Defendant claims this testimony was offered to identify him as the drug seller. 28 On direct examination, Detective Kanz testified to the informant's description of the seller as part of an explanation of the amount of information the police had regarding the Star Street house. This testimony was thus offered and admitted as a response to a question raised by defense counsel on cross-examination of preceding witnesses, and was not offered to prove what the drug seller looked like. It was only during cross-examination, at defense counsel's prodding, that Detective Kanz stated that Kimbro matched the description quite well. Defendant cannot now object to testimony he himself elicited. 29