{ "id": 3597044, "name": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BRENDA DEAN, Defendant-Appellant", "name_abbreviation": "People v. Dean", "decision_date": "1984-07-31", "docket_number": "No. 5\u201483\u20140348", "first_page": "631", "last_page": "636", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "126 Ill. App. 3d 631" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "381 N.E.2d 783", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.2d", "weight": 2, "pin_cites": [ { "page": "789" }, { "page": "789" } ], "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "64 Ill. App. 3d 551", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. 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BRENDA DEAN, Defendant-Appellant." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "JUSTICE JOHN M. KARNS\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nDefendant, Brenda E. Dean, appeals from the judgment of the circuit court of Madison County revoking her sentence of probation and imposing a term of imprisonment.\nIn May 1982, defendant pleaded guilty to the offense of forgery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 17 \u2014 3(a)(2)) following a charge that she knowingly and with the intent to defraud delivered to a grocery store clerk a check purported to have been made by another. She was sentenced to a period of two years\u2019 probation.\nIn September 1982, the State filed a petition to revoke probation, charging that the defendant violated the terms of her probation in that she knowingly and and unlawfully acquired possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, phenmetrazine (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 56x/2, pars. 1206(a), (d)(3)), by presentation of altered official prescription forms to a pharmacist, in violation of section 406(b)(3) of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 56x/2, par. 1406(b)(3)).\nAt the probation revocation hearing, Francis E. Meyers, a Wood River police officer, testified that he was contacted by Marsha Bursner, a pharmacist, regarding three prescriptions she had received and which appeared to her to have been altered.\nBursner testified that the defendant presented two prescriptions from Dr. Suresh Chand on separate occasions in June and that both were filled. Among the drugs dispensed on each occasion was \u201cPrelu-din,\u201d which she testified was a manufacturer\u2019s name for the generic drug phenmetrazine hydrochloride.\nDr. Chand, defendant\u2019s personal physician, testified over objection that he wrote the original prescriptions at issue. In each instance, he testified, he had prescribed and written \u201cPrelu-2\u201d on his prescription pad, and in each instance it was altered to read \u201cPreludin.\u201d Dr. Chand also stated that the generic name for \u201cPreludin\u201d is phenmetra-zine hydrochloride.\nDefendant contends that the trial court erred in admitting over objection Dr. Chand\u2019s testimony because it violated the physician-patient privilege. In particular, defendant argues that Dr. Chand should not have been required to divulge the specific medication he prescribed, \u201cPrelu-2,\u201d because it was contrary to her right to protection from disclosure and an invasion of her right to privacy. We do not agree.\nSection 8 \u2014 802 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 110, par. 8 \u2014 802, formerly Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 51, par. 5.1), provides in relevant part:\n\u201cSec. 8 \u2014 802. Physician and patient. No physician or surgeon shall be permitted to disclose any information he or she may have acquired in attending any patient in a professional character, necessary to enable him or her professionally to serve such patient ***.\u201d\nNone of the enumerated exceptions are applicable here.\nDr. Chand\u2019s disclosure of the prescribed medication does not fall within the ambit of the statute. His testimony did not disclose any information which he had acquired from her. Rather, it is evident that Dr. Chand\u2019s testimony merely established a variance between what was prescribed and what was presented to the pharmacist and acquired by the defendant.\nDefendant also relies on \u201cIllinois Revised Statutes, chapter 51, sec. 5.2\u201d for the proposition that Dr. Chand\u2019s testimony was precluded by the psychiatrist-patient relationship. Inasmuch as this section relating to this privilege was repealed by Public Act 80 \u2014 1508, article II, section 5, effective January 9, 1979 (see Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 51, par. 5.2), and defendant has failed to cite other pertinent statutory authority or make argument relating thereto, the issue is waived.\nDefendant further challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support her probation revocation. In this regard, she argues that since Dr. Chand\u2019s testimony was incompetent and inadmissible evidence the court erred in relying upon it. She also contends that the evidence was insufficient to establish that either \u201cPreludin\u2019\u2019 or \u201cphenmetrazine hydrochloride\u201d are controlled substances.\nIn proceedings to revoke probation the State has the burden of going forward with the evidence and proving the alleged violation by the preponderance of the evidence. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 1005 \u2014 6\u20144(c).) Dr. Chand\u2019s testimony was neither incompetent nor inadmissible. It was properly considered as some evidence regarding the issue of unlawful acquisition of a controlled substance.\nDrs. Chand and Bursner both testified that \u201cPreludin\u2019\u2019 is a trade name for phenmetrazine hydrochloride. Bursner further testified that \u201cPreludin\u2019\u2019 is a \u201cClass 2 narcotic\u201d and a controlled substance. Phenmetrazine is a Schedule II controlled substance and so are \u201cits salts.\u201d (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 56V2, par. 1206(d)(3).) Hydrochloride is defined as \u201ca compound of hydrochloric acid \u2014 used esp. with the names of organic bases for convenience in naming salts.\u201d (Webster\u2019s Third New International Dictionary 1108 (1971).) We believe the record is sufficient to support the trial court\u2019s finding that phenmetrazine hydrochloride or \u201cPreludin\u2019\u2019 are controlled substances.\nDefendant next contends that her sentence should be vacated because the trial court failed to give her an opportunity to make a statement before sentencing. The sentencing hearing transcript clearly refutes this contention. It contains 12 pages of testimony from the defendant. Although the trial court did not specifically ask her if she wished to make a statement, the allowance of her testimony clearly satisfied the statutory requirement. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 1005 \u2014 4\u20141(a)(5); People v. Miller (1979), 72 Ill. App. 3d 416, 390 N.E.2d 971.\nDefendant next contends that her sentence should be vacated because the trial court improperly considered a pending theft charge as a basis for its sentence determination. While it is true that the trial court referred twice to the pending theft charge and while it is generally error for a trial court to consider arrests and charges not followed by convictions, it is nevertheless proper to consider such arrests and charges when a convicted defendant has, as here, made an application for probation. (People v. Andreano (1978), 64 Ill. App. 3d 551, 558, 381 N.E.2d 783, 789, and cases therein cited.) Mere reference to a pending charge does not, of itself, show the judge\u2019s reliance thereon in imposing sentence. (64 Ill. App. 3d 551, 558, 381 N.E.2d 783, 789.) Moreover, at the hearing on defendant\u2019s post-trial motion the trial court recognized this principle and further added:\n\u201cI wasn\u2019t that concerned about it [the theft charge], although I commented on it and stated that I think there are other, certainly other stronger reasons and more clear reasons in the record which indicated that the Defendant is not a good risk for probation, and if that causes any problem, it really did not have any bearing on the sentence. I just commented on it, and the court will specifically disregard it. *** So I don\u2019t think it had any great impact or any impact at all really on the sentence imposed by the Court; and that the sentence of the Court is substantially sustained by the other evidence before the Court.\u201d\nIndeed, the trial court stated that it recognized the defendant\u2019s extensive criminal history, noting in particular her three retail theft convictions and two forgery convictions as well as \u201cseveral other misdemeanor convictions.\u201d In short, we find no merit in defendant\u2019s contention that she was prejudiced by the trial court\u2019s reference to the pending theft charge.\nDefendant finally contends that her sentence should be vacated because the trial court improperly considered the specific length of a prior forgery conviction sentence in imposing the instant sentence. Upon her conviction for forgery in 1978, the defendant was sentenced to 28 months\u2019 incarceration. In imposing the three-year sentence in the instant case, the court commented that sentences should get progressively more severe for repeat offenders and that it \u201cwould make no sense\u201d to give a shorter sentence than the one defendant served for a prior same offense. We find nothing inherently wrong with these comments, nor has defendant cited any authority in support of her conclusion that such comments were improper. The record does not support defendant\u2019s assertion that the sentence was not based upon the original offense. The court said,\n\u201cI think a sentence imposed on like felonies seem to give an indication of the history of the defendant in a way. It\u2019s just another one of the many things which the Court will look at, and it was certainly not the sole reason the sentence was imposed. It was certainly not even a substantial reason why the sentence was imposed, but it is something which as I stated I looked at along with all the other matters in the case as part of the criminal history *** of the Defendant.\u201d\nAs the State points out, here the sentence imposed was only one year in excess of the minimum for a forgery conviction, despite the fact that it was her third forgery conviction and despite her six other convictions. We find no error as alleged.\nFor all of the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the circuit court of Madison County is affirmed.\nAffirmed.\nJONES and HARRISON, JJ., concur.", "type": "majority", "author": "JUSTICE JOHN M. KARNS" } ], "attorneys": [ "G. Edward Moorman, of Groshong, Moorman & Fahrenkamp, Ltd., of East Alton, for appellant.", "Don W. Weber, State\u2019s Attorney, of Edwardsville (Kenneth R. Boyle, Stephen E. Norris, and Raymond F. Buckley, Jr., all of State\u2019s Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BRENDA DEAN, Defendant-Appellant.\nFifth District\nNo. 5\u201483\u20140348\nOpinion filed July 31, 1984.\nRehearing denied September 4, 1984.\nG. Edward Moorman, of Groshong, Moorman & Fahrenkamp, Ltd., of East Alton, for appellant.\nDon W. Weber, State\u2019s Attorney, of Edwardsville (Kenneth R. Boyle, Stephen E. Norris, and Raymond F. Buckley, Jr., all of State\u2019s Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People." }, "file_name": "0631-01", "first_page_order": 653, "last_page_order": 658 }