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PEOPLE v. SPARKS

No. 2-01-0247.

780 N.E.2d 781 (2002)

335 Ill. App.3d 249

269 Ill.Dec. 309

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kevin SPARKS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District.

November 27, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Joseph Weller, Deputy Defender, (Court-appointed), Office of the State Appellate Defender, Elgin, Lawrence D. Wechter (Court-appointed), Law Office of Larry Wechter, Geneva, for Kevin Sparks.

Michael P. Bald, Stephenson County State's Attorney, Freeport, Martin P. Moltz, Deputy Director, State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Elgin, Sharmila Roy, Lehrer & Canavan P.C., Wheaton, for the People.

Presiding Justice HUTCHINSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant, Kevin Sparks, was convicted of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a church (720 ILCS 570/407(b)(2) (West 2000)) and sentenced to six years' imprisonment. On appeal, defendant argues that (1) the State failed to lay an adequate foundation to support its measurements of the distance from the site of the drug transaction to the alleged church...

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