Appellate Court of Illinois

Conviction of unlawful possession with intent to deliver of a controlled substance and a sentence of 19 years in prison plus a mandatory imposition of a street-value fine of ten thousand dollars is vacated and the case remanded where: 1) the fine was not supported by the evidence; and 2) although a court may adopt reliable evidence from the trial testimony as a basis for determining value, it is unclear how the court determined the value of the fine other than just accepting the state's figure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2008
• Published 06/11/2008

Judges

Court

• Appellate Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gary R. Peterson and Colleen Morgan, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Springfield, for appellant., Julia Rietz, State's Attorney, of Urbana (Norbert J. Goetten, Robert J. Biderman, and Thomas R. Ewick, all of State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Office, of counsel), for the People.