Appellate Court of Illinois

A conviction and sentence on two counts of possession of a controlled substance is affirmed and modified as to the fines imposed over claims of error regarding: 1) denial of his pretrial motion to suppress evidence; 2) failure to prove defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; 3) misstatement of evidence by the trial court in its findings; 4) the imposition of a five dollar fee for the Spinal Cord Paralysis Cure Research Trust Fund as unconstitutional; 5) the assessment of a twenty dollar Violent Crime Victims Assistance Fund fine as improper; and 6) the failure to offset the five hundred dollar controlled substance fine and the one hundred dollar trauma fund fine by a five dollar per day pre-sentence credit.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/21/2007
• Published 05/21/2007

Judges

• Justice ROBERT E. GORDON delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Appellate Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago (Aliza R. Kaliski, of counsel), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• State's Attorney, Cook County, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Manny Magence, Annette Gonzalez Thornton, of counsel), for Appellee.