State v. Fridley

During a traffic stop, police discovered Gaylord Fridley's (defendant) driver's license had been revoked, and he was charged with driving with a revoked license, a strict-liability misdemeanor. Fridley sought to testify that a driver's-license-division employee, Debbie, had told him he could drive for seven days while his work-permit paperwork was processed. The trial court excluded the testimony as hearsay and not an official legal interpretation, and denied Fridley's request for a mistake-of-law jury instruction. He was convicted and appealed.