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HERSHEY MARTIN et al., Defendants-Appellants." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "JUSTICE SOUTH\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nFollowing a bench trial, defendant Reginald Cross (Cross) was convicted of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. Defendant Hershey Martin (Martin) was convicted of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and possession of cannabis with intent to deliver. Both defendants were sentenced to concurrent prison terms of five years. Defendants contend on appeal that the evidence was insufficient to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt because the testimony of the State\u2019s sole witness was inherently unbelievable. Defendant Cross also argues he is entitled to sentencing credit for time he spent participating in the Cook County Day Reporting Program. We affirm.\nAt trial, Chicago police officer Michael Campbell testified that around 1:41 p.m. on October 5, 2001, he was part of a tactical team of approximately 20 officers executing a search warrant at 6929 South Justine, a single-family home. Officer Campbell knocked on the basement door and announced his office. Using a battering ram, a pry bar and bolt cutters, Campbell gained entry into the basement. Campbell discovered in the basement a scale, a clear plastic knotted bag containing suspected crack cocaine and numerous \u201cziplock\u201d and sandwich plastic bags. Nobody was present in the basement. Campbell testified he kept the scale, plastic bags and suspected crack cocaine in his custody and control, meaning that he put them in a blue plastic inventory bag, until he inventoried them. Campbell inventoried the suspected crack cocaine under number 2597014 and the scale and bags under number 2597015.\nAfter he recovered the items from the basement, Campbell went to the first floor of the home with approximately five other officers, where he saw two or three women and one or two small children toward the front of the house. Campbell discovered defendant Cross in a rear bedroom, lying on the only bed in the room. Cross was alone. Campbell asked Cross to stand up and conducted a pat-down search.\nDefendant Martin was discovered in another bedroom to the left of the kitchen containing two beds. Martin was lying on the only bed that had sheets. Campbell asked Martin to stand up and conducted a pat-down search.\nCampbell asked both defendants to go into the living room. After a second pat-down search was conducted, defendants were placed in a police van outside. The women in the house were also searched and taken outside. A canine search of the house, including the two bedrooms, was then conducted. Neither of the bedrooms had locks on the door.\nCampbell recovered $3,647, \u201cnumerous amounts of cannabis,\u201d and a loaded 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun from a clothes basket in the rear bedroom where defendant Cross was discovered. Campbell testified he kept the suspected cannabis, which consisted of 63 or 64 bags, in his custody and control until he inventoried them under number 2597018. Campbell also discovered Cross\u2019s state identification card listing 6929 South Justine as his address, and men\u2019s shoes, jeans and clothing in that bedroom.\nFrom the bed th\u00e1t Martin was sleeping on, Campbell recovered either $647 or $673 as well as nine \u201cziplock\u201d and four knotted bags containing suspected cannabis. The suspected cannabis was inventoried under number 2597016 and the money was inventoried under number 2597017. Campbell also recovered from that bedroom two items, including a canine rabies certificate, listing Martin\u2019s address as 6929 South Justine, as well as men\u2019s clothing and shoes.\nAfter the above evidence was recovered, Campbell took defendants into custody and read them their Miranda rights. Campbell testified that at the station, in the presence of Sergeant Leibas, defendant Cross \u201cstated that the weapon was his and that he had it for protection and that the narcotics that we found in the house were both his and [Martin\u2019s] *** and that they were just trying to make some money.\u201d Campbell also testified that defendant Martin, also in the presence of Leibas, separately told him \u201cthat the narcotics were his and Cross\u2019s and that they were also selling it just to make a little money.\u201d\nThe State entered into evidence a certified copy of Cross\u2019s prior felony conviction. The parties also stipulated to a forensic chemist\u2019s testimony indicating that the items under inventory number 2597014 weighed 4.4 grams and tested positive for cocaine, that the item under inventory number 2597018 consisted of 59 bags, 1 of which tested positive for 0.6 of a gram of cannabis, and that the items under inventory number 2597016 consisted of 13 bags, 4 of which weighed 38.7 grams and tested positive for cannabis.\nDefense counsel, contending that the State failed to show constructive possession of the narcotics, moved for a directed finding. Counsel argued defendants\u2019 alleged statements were unwritten, and therefore unsigned, and did not identify the narcotics. Further, counsel argued that Campbell\u2019s testimony indicating that defendants slept through the police prying open the basement door, that Campbell recovered all of the evidence even though there were 20 officers present, that Campbell was able to conduct pat-down searches of defendants while he held the blue plastic evidence bag, and that both defendants happened to be alone in separate bedrooms where the evidence was recovered \u201cjust strain[ed] any type of credibility or credulity.\u201d The trial court denied defendants\u2019 motion.\nDefendants presented testimony from Cross\u2019s mother, Carrie Cross (Carrie), Cross\u2019s sister, Cheryl Cross (Cheryl), and Cross\u2019s girlfriend, Cassandra Drayton (Cassandra). Both defendants also testified. This testimony established that several adults, including Carrie, Cheryl, Sheila Cross (Sheila), Shontae Cross (Shontae), and Cassandra, in addition to defendants, lived at 6929 South Justine. Several children, including Cheryl\u2019s son Joshua, Sheila\u2019s daughter Tanisha, Cross\u2019s daughter Arianna, and Shontae\u2019s son Mikiel also lived there. Other individuals, including a friend of Cross\u2019s brother named \u201cChubby\u201d or \u201cChub,\u201d and Martin\u2019s son, \u201clittle Joshua,\u201d were also at the house on October 5, 2001, when the police arrived. Defense evidence additionally established that neither bedroom from which Campbell testified he recovered evidence had locks on the door.\nDefense witnesses established that defendant Cross stayed in the rear bedroom with Cassandra and Arianna, while the bedroom to the left of the kitchen was shared by Carrie, Cheryl and Joshua. Defendant Martin slept in the basement and did not nap or keep any of his belongings in the bedroom Campbell testified he was found in. Neither Carrie, Cheryl nor Cassandra saw any drugs in either the bedrooms or the basement before the police arrived.\nCheryl testified that she was in the bedroom to the left of the kitchen, which she shared with Carrie and her son Joshua, when the police arrived. Defendant Martin was in the kitchen by the refrigerator. Cheryl did not see defendant Cross.\nCassandra testified she was alone cleaning in the back bedroom that she shared with Cross and Arianna when the police arrived. The laundry basket in the bedroom was empty because she did laundry that day.\nAn officer entered the door to Cassandra\u2019s room and took her to the basement. On the way, she saw Martin in the kitchen with other officers. In the basement, Cassandra saw that officers had Cross and Chub \u201con the floor.\u201d An officer took Cassandra back upstairs and led her outside to the front yard. Cassandra also saw Chub exit a police van. After the police searched the house, $1,500 was missing from a jacket that was hanging in her bedroom.\nDefendant Cross, a convicted felon, testified he was in the basement watching television with Chub when three officers \u201cbusted in.\u201d Cross was not in his bedroom. An officer handcuffed him and Chub and threw them to the ground. About seven minutes later, an officer took Cross and Chub upstairs and led them through the kitchen, where Cross saw Martin standing by the refrigerator. The officer then took Cross and Chub outside and put them in a police van, where defendant Martin was also placed. Defendants remained there for approximately two hours, but Chub was allowed to leave.\nCross denied telling the police that the narcotics, the cocaine, the cannabis, the money, or the gun belonged to him.\nDefendant Martin, a convicted felon, testified that he was in the kitchen when two officers came through the back door and pointed a gun at him. Martin slept in the basement and did not see any cocaine, scales or bags on the table when he woke up that morning. Martin saw Cross come up from the basement with an officer. The police then took Martin into the basement and outside through the basement door. Martin was then put in a police van with Cross and Chub, but Chub was allowed to leave.\nMartin testified that he did not see any marijuana in Carrie and Cheryl\u2019s bedroom and denied telling Officer Campbell that the narcotics belonged to him and Cross.\nIn rebuttal, Campbell testified that only two men were placed in the police van and he never saw a man named Chub either in the house or in the police van. Campbell also did not see Cross or another man in the basement.\nThe trial court found defendant Cross guilty of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and found defendant Martin guilty of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and possession of cannabis with intent to deliver. In making its determination, the court first found the \u201clab\u201d for the cannabis recovered from the laundry basket in Cross\u2019s bedroom problematic. It therefore found Cross not guilty of possession of cannabis with intent to deliver and armed violence. The court then found defendants\u2019 theory of the case, that the evidence was planted, to be incredible. The court also found Officer Campbell to be credible, that he was not \u201clike a superman,\u201d and that it made \u201cperfect sense\u201d that he would be the sole officer inventorying the evidence found in the house. As far as defendants\u2019 statements were concerned, the court found:\n\u201cI\u2019d have to believe that they didn\u2019t make any statements. I\u2019d have to throw everything out in this case and I think if you didn\u2019t have the statements with the number of people that were in the house the State would have a problem proving constructive possession of the items found in this house but you do have the statements by the two defendants that the narcotics were [theirs]. I don\u2019t believe that the State has to prove which narcotics that they\u2019re talking about.\u201d\nDefendants contend that the evidence was insufficient to sustain their convictions. Defendants primarily take issue with Officer Campbell\u2019s credibility and argue that the State failed to prove possession, an element of each offense of which they were convicted.\nWhen a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, the issue is \u201c \u2018whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.\u2019 \u201d (Emphasis in original.) People v. Cunningham, 212 Ill. 2d 274, 278 (2004), quoting Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319, 61 L. Ed. 2d 560, 573, 99 S. Ct. 2781, 2789 (1979). \u201c[W]here the finding of guilt depends on eyewitness testimony, a reviewing court must decide whether, in light of the record, a fact finder could reasonably accept the testimony as true beyond a reasonable doubt.\u201d Cunningham, 212 Ill. 2d at 279. Testimony may be found insufficient under the Jackson standard \u201conly where the record evidence compels the conclusion that no reasonable person could accept it beyond a reasonable doubt.\u201d Cunningham, 212 Ill. 2d at 280.\nDefendants argue Officer Campbell\u2019s testimony was so inherently unbelievable that there remains a reasonable doubt as to their guilt. Defendants take issue with several aspects of Campbell\u2019s testimony, including that he personally recovered the suspected cocaine and bags from the basement and carried them upstairs to where defendants, despite the noise of the officers\u2019 forced entry, were asleep in separate bedrooms. Defendants also argue Campbell\u2019s testimony that both defendants made similar confessions implicating themselves in the crimes, without any memorialization of the statements, was similarly unbelievable. Defendants additionally assert their guilt is questioned by the testimony of their witnesses establishing that more than 10 people lived in the house on October 5, 2001, and that neither defendant was in either bedroom when the police arrived.\nIn Cunningham, 212 Ill. 2d 274, our supreme court recently addressed the issue of witness credibility. In that case, the defendant was convicted of possession of a controlled substance. At trial, the State presented testimony of the arresting officer and the stipulated testimony of a forensic chemist to prove the defendant\u2019s guilt. The appellate court reversed the trial court\u2019s finding of guilt, concluding that the \u201c \u2018whole scenario as described by [the arresting officer was] *** unworthy of belief.\u2019 \u201d Cunningham, 212 Ill. 2d at 278, quoting People v. Cunningham, 333 Ill. App. 3d 1045, 1050 (2002). Our supreme court reversed the decision of the appellate court, holding that although several aspects of the arresting officer\u2019s testimony remained subject to question, there was no proof that his testimony included lies or errors, and the fact finder could reasonably accept his statements as proof beyond a reasonable doubt that he saw the defendant holding a bag that contained cocaine. Cunningham, 212 Ill. 2d at 282-85.\nIn reaching its conclusion, our supreme court rejected the State\u2019s contention that the fact finder\u2019s determination of witness credibility is conclusive and reaffirmed that \u201cthe fact finder\u2019s decision to accept testimony is entitled to great deference but is not conclusive and does not bind the reviewing court.\u201d Cunningham, 212 Ill. 2d at 280. The court also held that \u201cit is for the fact finder to judge how flaws in part of [a witness\u2019s] testimony affect the credibility of the whole.\u201d Cunningham, 212 Ill. 2d at 283. The court then discussed several cases, including People v. Schott, 145 Ill. 2d 188 (1991), People v. Quintana, 91 Ill. App. 2d 95 (1968), and People v. Coulson, 13 Ill. 2d 290 (1958), where the reviewing court properly found that flaws in testimony made it impossible for any fact finder to reasonably accept any part of it. In Schott, the witness contradicted her previous sworn testimony, was an admitted liar, and had motive to falsely accuse the defendant. In Quintana, the police officer contradicted another State witness and, because he had harassed and threatened the defendant in an attempt to persuade him to become a police informant, had motive to fabricate. In Coulson, the witness\u2019s description of the alleged armed robbery \u201c \u2018taxe[d] the gullibility of the credulous.\u2019 \u201d Cunningham, 212 Ill. 2d at 284, quoting Coulson, 13 Ill. 2d at 296.\nIn this case, taking the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, it was reasonable for the trial court to accept Officer Campbell\u2019s testimony. Here, unlike in Schott or Quintana, the State\u2019s witness was not an admitted liar who had motive to accuse defendants. Unlike in Coulson, in this case we do not believe Campbell\u2019s account of the search of defendants\u2019 home and defendants\u2019 statements concerning the narcotics and gun was so incredible that it taxed the gullibility of the credulous.\nBecause we have determined that it was reasonable for the trial court to accept Campbell\u2019s testimony, we conclude that the evidence was sufficient to prove that defendants possessed the narcotics in question and that defendant Cross possessed the gun. Possession is an element of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon (720 ILCS 5/24\u2014 1.1(a) (West 2002)), possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver (720 ILCS 570/401(c)(2) (West 2002)), and possession of cannabis with intent to deliver (720 ILCS 550/5(d) (West 2002)). The State can prove the element of possession by showing either actual possession or constructive possession. See People v. Ray, 232 Ill. App. 3d 459, 462 (1992). To prove constructive possession, the State must show that the defendant had knowledge of the presence of the contraband and exercised immediate and exclusive control over the area where the contraband was found. People v. McCarter, 339 Ill. App. 3d 876, 879 (2003). Mere presence in the vicinity of where the contraband was discovered is insufficient to prove constructive possession. Ray, 232 Ill. App. 3d at 462. Control over the area where the contraband was found gives rise to an inference that the defendant possessed the contraband. McCarter, 339 Ill. App. 3d at 879.\nIn this case, defendants lived at 6929 South Justine. Campbell testified he discovered cocaine in the basement and that he found defendant Cross sleeping in the rear bedroom. Campbell then discovered $3,647, marijuana and a gun in a clothing basket near the bed. Campbell also testified that Cross\u2019s identification and other belongings were found in that room, and defense witnesses established that that bedroom was where Cross and his family slept. Campbell also testified that he found defendant Martin sleeping in the left bedroom, where he discovered money and marijuana. A rabies vaccination tag and other items belonging to Martin were also discovered there. Campbell also testified that Cross admitted the gun was his and the \u201cnarcotics\u201d belonged to both him and defendant Martin, and that Martin stated that the \u201cnarcotics\u201d belonged to both him and Cross. Although defendants\u2019 witnesses testified to an entirely different factual scenario, it was for the trial court to resolve that issue. We therefore conclude the evidence was sufficient to prove defendant Cross guilty of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. It was also sufficient to prove defendant Martin guilty of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and possession of cannabis with intent to deliver.\n\u20225 Defendant Cross next contends that, pursuant to section 5 \u2014 8\u2014 7(b) of the Unified Code of Corrections (730 ILCS 5/5 \u2014 8\u20147(b) (West 2002)) (the Code of Corrections), he is entitled to sentencing credit for the time he spent participating in the Cook County Day Reporting Program. Defendant asserts that under People v. Quintana, 332 Ill. App. 3d 96, 110 (2002), he is entitled to a full day\u2019s credit for any part of a day he spent at the day reporting center. Defendant argues his mittimus should be amended to reflect credit for this time, which he calculates at 432 days.\nSection 5 \u2014 8\u20147(b) of the Code of Corrections provides in relevant part that a defendant \u201cshall be given credit *** for time spent in custody as a result of the offense for which the sentence was imposed.\u201d 730 ILCS 5/5 \u2014 8\u20147(b) (West 2002). Thus, the issue we must decide is whether time spent participating in the day reporting program is \u201ctime spent in custody\u201d for purposes of section 5 \u2014 8\u20147(b). As this issue involves statutory interpretation, we apply de novo review. People v. Roberson, 212 Ill. 2d 430, 437 (2004).\nThis exact issue has not been previously addressed. Defendant relies on People v. Campa, 353 Ill. App. 3d 178 (2004), appeal allowed, 213 Ill. 2d 564 (2005), which held that a defendant participating in the day reporting program was \u201cin custody\u201d for purposes of the speedy trial statute (725 ILCS 5/103 \u2014 5 (West 2000)). The State contends that People v. Ramos, 138 Ill. 2d 152 (1990), which discussed the meaning of \u201ctime spent in custody\u201d for purposes of section 5 \u2014 8\u20147(b), controls.\nIn Ramos, our supreme court held that a period of home confinement following a defendant\u2019s release on bond did not constitute \u201ctime spent in custody\u201d under section 5 \u2014 8\u20147(b) of the Code of Corrections. The court discussed its previous decisions in People ex rel. Morrison v. Sielaff, 58 Ill. 2d 91 (1974), and People v. Scheib, 76 Ill. 2d 244 (1979), and held that the legislature, in enacting section 5 \u2014 8\u20147(b), intended to distinguish between confinement in a penal institution and \u201c \u2018lesser forms of restraint.\u2019 \u201d Ramos, 138 Ill. 2d at 158, quoting Scheib, 76 Ill. 2d at 251. The court found that the purpose of section 5 \u2014 8\u20147(b), to \u201censure that defendants do not ultimately remain incarcerated for periods in excess of their eventual sentences,\u201d was served by granting sentencing credit for time previously spent in institutional custody, but not by granting credit for time spent on bond, even with restrictive conditions. Ramos, 138 Ill. 2d at 159. The court then concluded that home confinement was not equivalent to institutional confinement because a defendant confined to his home was not subject to the regimentation of penal institutions, enjoyed freedom of association, activity, and movement once inside the home, and did not experience the same surveillance and lack of privacy as an incarcerated defendant.\nIn Campa, the appellate court held that a defendant participating in the day reporting program was \u201cin custody\u201d for purposes of the speedy trial provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (725 ILCS 5/103 \u2014 5 (West 2000)), which generally requires that a defendant in custody be tried within 120 days. The court held that because the statute did not define \u201ccustody,\u201d the legislature must have intended the term to have its ordinary and popularly understood meaning. Looking to the definition of \u201ccustody\u201d in Black\u2019s Law Dictionary (Black\u2019s Law Dictionary 347 (5th ed. 1979)), the court adopted an elastic definition of the term. The court found that the defendant was \u201cin custody\u201d because he remained under the control of the sheriffs department, which retained the power to imprison him. It was the sheriffs department, and not the court, that determined whether the defendant was eligible for day reporting and whether he complied with reporting conditions. Discussing the case law, the court found that \u201can individual can be in custody despite enjoying considerable freedom.\u201d Campa, 353 Ill. App. 3d at 184. The court did not address Ramos.\nWe reject defendant\u2019s reliance on Campa. That case involved only the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 and not the Code of Corrections. Because this case involves the Code of Corrections, we follow Ramos. Under that case, we find that participation in the day reporting program falls on the \u201clesser form of restraint\u201d rather than the \u201cinstitutional confinement\u201d side of the section 5 \u2014 8\u20147(b) divide. Like the defendant on home confinement in Ramos, defendant Cross in this case was not subject to the same surveillance and lack of privacy as an incarcerated individual. Further, when defendant was not at the reporting facility, he was not subject to the regimentation of a penal institute and enjoyed many freedoms. We therefore reject defendant Cross\u2019s contention that he is entitled to additional sentencing credit.\nThe decision of the circuit court of Cook County is therefore affirmed.\nAffirmed.\nKARNEZIS, PJ., and HOFFMAN, J., concur.\nSection 5 \u2014 8\u20147(b) was amended effective July 27, 1993 (Pub. Act 88\u2014 119, \u00a7 5, eff. July 27, 1993), to provide for circumstances under which credit for home detention may be given. 730 ILCS 5/5 \u2014 8\u20147(b) (West 2002).", "type": "majority", "author": "JUSTICE SOUTH" } ], "attorneys": [ "Theodore A. Gottfried and Elena B. Penick, both of State Appellate Defender\u2019s Office, of Chicago, for appellants.", "Richard A. Devine, State\u2019s Attorney, of Chicago (Renee Goldfarb and James D. Ridgway, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel), for the People." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HERSHEY MARTIN et al., Defendants-Appellants.\nFirst District (3rd Division)\nNos. 1-03-3224, 1-03-3225 cons.\nOpinion filed May 11, 2005.\nRehearing denied June 6, 2005.\nTheodore A. Gottfried and Elena B. Penick, both of State Appellate Defender\u2019s Office, of Chicago, for appellants.\nRichard A. Devine, State\u2019s Attorney, of Chicago (Renee Goldfarb and James D. Ridgway, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel), for the People." }, "file_name": "0663-01", "first_page_order": 679, "last_page_order": 689 }