PEOPLE v. LUSIETTO

No. 66729.

131 Ill.2d 51 (1989)

544 N.E.2d 785

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. JAMES LUSIETTO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 20, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Catherine M. Fitzsimmons, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Robert J. Ruiz, Solicitor General, and Terence M. Madsen and David E. Bindi, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Appellate court judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a plea of guilty in the circuit court of La Salle County to a charge of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 56 1/2, par. 1401(a)), the defendant, James Lusietto, was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment and was fined $8,290 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 1005-9-1.1). The defendant appealed, contending that the fine mandated...

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