SNELL, Judge.
At about 3:00 p.m. on December 16, 1984, three persons, one armed with a .45 caliber pistol, entered the home of Des Moines residents Mike and Shelly Gates and forced them to turn over $350 and a small quantity of marijuana. The Gates and their two-year-old child were then forced into a closet and the robbers threatened to shoot through it. The victims, who themselves were admitted drug dealers, did not report the incident to police. After a friend of...
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