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PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

No. 2-03-1015.

837 N.E.2d 467 (2005)

361 Ill. App.3d 430

297 Ill.Dec. 384

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John W. JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District.

October 19, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Joseph Weller, Deputy Defender, and Barbara R. Paschen (Court-appointed), Office of the State Appellate Defender, Elgin, for John W. Johnson.

Michael J. Waller, Lake County State's Attorney, Waukegan, Martin P. Moltz, Deputy Director, State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Elgin, Constance Augsburger, Buzard & Augsburger, Mt. Morris, for the People.

Justice McLAREN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, John W. Johnson, appeals from his conviction of a single count of possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (720 ILCS 570/402(c) (West 2002)). He contends that flaws in the chain of custody of two small plastic bags he possessed made it error to admit the results of tests that indicated that the substance in the bags was cocaine. He further contends that the same flaws made the evidence that the substance...

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