{"id":802,"date":"2010-02-14T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2010-02-14T20:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T02:00:21","slug":"pcsw-intent-reduced-in-two-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/14\/pcsw-intent-reduced-in-two-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"PCS\/W Intent REDUCED IN TWO WAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a well reasoned opinion by Justice McBride, \u00a0issued on 2\/5\/10,\u00a0a conviction for PCS\/W &gt;1 gram &lt;15 grams was reduced to a Class 4 PCS because 1: \u00a0The forensic chemist testified that he combined multiple packets to determine weight before testing for the presence of a\u00a0<span id=\"lw_1266198955_0\" style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;\">controlled substance<\/span> thus giving the Court &#8220;no way of knowing whether each packet contained heroin or if only one contained heroin.&#8221;\u00a0 2: \u00a0Testimony that the defendant dropped a package containing 13 packets of suspect heroin while fleeing from the police plus the\u00a0$40.00 recovered from the defendant was insufficient to prove intent to deliver. \u00a0Read<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/OPINIONS\/AppellateCourt\/2009\/1stDistrict\/December\/1080720.pdf\"> People v. \u00a0Clinton No. 1-08-0720 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a well reasoned opinion by Justice McBride, \u00a0issued on 2\/5\/10,\u00a0a conviction for PCS\/W &gt;1 gram &lt;15 grams was reduced to a Class 4 PCS because 1: \u00a0The forensic chemist testified that he combined multiple packets to determine weight before testing for the presence of a\u00a0controlled substance thus giving the Court &#8220;no way of knowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}