DEA bicycle collision: 5 takeaways

An agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is trying to avoid prosecution for running a stop sign and killing a Salem cyclist last spring. That effort has cracked open evidence in the criminal case against the federal agent.

Samuel T. Landis, 38, and Marion County prosecutors previously got a federal judge’s approval to keep the public from accessing exhibits they were using to argue his prosecution. But state Justice Department attorneys subsequently filed most…