Appellate Court of Illinois

A conviction and sentence for possession of cocaine is affirmed over claims of error regarding the state's failure to prove defendant possessed cocaine when in fact the defendant had been appraised that he was on trial for a heroin offense mentioned in the indictment. However the fee order is modified where it was improperly assessed and the defendant is given credit under section 110-14.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/04/2008
• Published 06/04/2008

Judges

• Presiding Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Appellate Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Darrel F. Oman, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Cook County, Chicago (James F. Fitzgerald, Sasha J. Wiesen, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for Appellee.