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PEOPLE v. SESMAS

Nos. 3-91-0623, 3-91-0627.

591 N.E.2d 918 (1992)

227 Ill. App.3d 1040

169 Ill.Dec. 414

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Evaristo SESMAS, Defendant-Appellant. The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mary ZAMORA, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.

April 27, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Fisher, Office of State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, J. Barton Kalish, Chicago, Trial Counsel, for Evaristo Sesmas.

J. Barton Kalish, J. Barton Kalish & Colleagues, Chicago, Michael Johnson, Trial Counsel, for Mary Zamora.

Robert M. Hansen, State's Attys. Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, Marc Bernabei, State's Atty., Princeton, John X. Breslin, Deputy Director State's Attys. Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, for the People.

Justice GORMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants were passenger and driver of a car which contained three kilograms of cocaine in a false compartment in the gas tank. Upon conviction at a bench trial, each was given a street value fine of $1,120,166 and sentenced to thirty years imprisonment for controlled substance trafficking. We affirm.

On February 4, 1991, Illinois State Trooper James Lower noticed a 1974 Ford LTD driving erratically eastbound...

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