Fate of DEA agent’s criminal prosecution now rests with appellate judges

A DEA agent has not proved that his defense for running a stop sign and killing a Salem cyclist entitles him to move to federal court and possibly get the charges dismissed, state attorneys argued on Tuesday.

“There was no urgency, there was no emergency” when Samuel T. Landis drove through a stop sign into the path of a Salem cyclist who was killed by the impact, a state Justice Department attorney argued before a…