Opinion ID: 340546
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: We waited and finally the THC got there.

Text: 59 Q. What did he do with the THC when he brought it? 60 A. Handed it to Dewayne (Dolan) and Mike tried it. 61 Q. How did Mike try it? 62 A. He snorted it. 63 Q. Mike snorted it? 64 A. Yes. 65 Q. What did Mike say about it? 66 A. He just laid back and said it was good. 67 Q. You said he handed it to Dewayne. Could you see what it was that he handed to Dewayne? A. It was a bag 68 Q. Go ahead. 69 A. It was a baggie with white powder crystals in it. It was almost half full, the baggie was. 70 Mike Brisendine testified to the same transaction. He stated that he, the defendant and others purchased an ounce of crystal THC. 71 Keith Bailey testified that on a different trip to Detroit, he and the defendant attempted unsuccessfully to obtain some PCP. His testimony was apparently the source of the government's confusion of PCP, THC and phencyclidine: 72 Q. What is PCP to your knowledge? 73 A. THC. What is it? Hallucinogenic drug. 74 Q. Hallucinogen? 75 A. Yes. 76 Q. Similar to LSD? 77 A. Somewhat, yes, sir. 78 Q. How is it used? 79 A. You can inject it with a needle or snort it, smoke it. 80 Q. How do you snort it? 81 A. You roll up a bill or something of that nature. 82 Q. What? 83 A. A dollar bill or something like that and inhale through your nose. 84 Q. Or you can smoke it? 85 A. Yes, sir. 86 Q. And by smoke it what do you mean? 87 A. Say you put some PCP on a ball of marijuana and you smoke the marijuana and the substance is burned up through the marijuana. 88 Q. And by injecting it, what do you mean by that? 89 A. Use of a needle. 90 Q. In the arm or somewhere else? 91 A. A vein. 92 Q. Tell the jury what happened when you got to Detroit. 93 A. We couldn't obtain an ounce of PCP. 94 The only other reference in the transcript to PCP, THC or phencyclidine is found in the testimony of Harold Robinson who described another transaction in Detroit in which the defendant and others supposedly obtained some heroin or THC, what I thought was THC with a heroin base. This transaction involving heroin took place in February 1974 and was the subject of Count Six. It is clearly a separate incident from the alleged dealing in THC-PCP, etc., in Count Five. 95 The evidence thus establishes only that (1) the substance involved in the allegedly illicit transactions was represented by the sellers and believed by the buyers to be something called THC; (2) the substance was a white crystalline powder; and (3) one witness snorted it and said it was good. Bailey's testimony establishes at best that there is a drug known as PCP which can be snorted, smoked or injected. His single reference to THC is apparently inadvertent. Totally lacking is any showing that any witness ingested the white crystalline powder and experienced effects he had reason to believe were similar to those of THC. Even had such testimony been supplied, it would not have proved that THC is the same thing as the controlled substance phencyclidine, which was mentioned by no witness.