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PEOPLE v. JONES

No. 80405.

675 N.E.2d 99 (1996)

174 Ill.2d 427

221 Ill.Dec. 192

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Tony JONES, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

December 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Jack O'Malley, State's Attorney, Chicago (Arleen C. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb, Kenneth T. McCurry, Alan J. Spellberg, Kalina M. Tulley, Susan R. Schierl and Robert Robertson, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender, Chicago (James H. Reddy, Assistant Defender, of counsel), for appellee.

Justice HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Tony Jones, was arrested for the possession of five separate packets containing a white rocky substance which the police believed to be a controlled substance. The State selected two of the five packets and tested their contents. The contents of the remaining three packets were not tested. Results of the two packets tested showed the presence of cocaine. Notably, the two packets tested weighed a combined...

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