PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

No. 55240.

92 Ill.2d 109 (1982)

440 N.E.2d 843

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. SCOTT WILLIAMS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 17, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and J. Michael Fitzsimmons, State's Attorney, of Wheaton (Michael B. Weinstein, Ronald Lee Bell, Herbert Lee Caplan, Jr., and Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, Phyllis J. Perko and Martin P. Moltz, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Elgin, of counsel), for appellant.

Richard L. Salon, of Chicago, for appellee.


Vacated and remanded.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Scott Williams, the defendant, was convicted following a jury trial in the circuit court of Du Page County of delivering less than 30 grams of a substance containing cocaine (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 56 1/2, par. 1401(b)). The defendant conducted his defense pro se. Before the trial began, but after a jury had been selected, the defendant requested a continuance in order to obtain...

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