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

Heading: We copped some LSD.

Text: 21 Q. How much LSD did you cop? 22 A. 300 hits. 23 Q. By copping LSD, you mean buying it or getting it? 24 A. Yes, sir. 25 Q. What kind of LSD was it? 26 A. Orange barrels. 27 Q. Orange barrels? 28 A. Yes, sir. 29 Q. What are orange barrels? 30 A. LSD. 31 Q. What do they look like? 32 A. They are just little orange pills. 33 Q. Orange pills? 34 A. Yes, sir. 35 Q. Orange pills. Is that the term you use for them? 36 A. We just called it sunshine. 37 Q. Sunshine. Orange sunshine. 38 A. Yes. 39 Q. Did you use any of it? 40 A. Yes, sir. 41 Q. Who did? 42 A. All of us. 43 Later, on cross-examination, the defense asked Crank if he had any personal knowledge that Dolan had received any of the LSD. He answered: 44 A. Yes, he was tripping. 45 Q. How do you know that? 46 A. You can tell anytime anybody is on LSD. 47 Q. Did you see anyone give him any LSD? 48 A. No, sir. 49 Q. Did you all take LSD over there? Did you? 50 A. No sir. We didn't eat ours till we got back in West Virginia. Later, on redirect: 51 Q. What do you mean by tripping? 52 A. Tripping is the hallucinations and such that you go through when you take LSD. 53 This is all the evidence showing that the orange pills were LSD. I think it is legally insufficient to support that conclusion. All it shows is (1) the sellers said it was LSD; (2) it was in the form of orange pills; (3) based on the above information, two lay witnesses thought it was LSD; (4) one lay witness observed Dolan after the transaction in a state he thought was induced by a hallucinogenic drug; and (5) the witnesses used the substance when they got back to West Virginia. Completely lacking was any evidence that either of the witnesses took the drug and themselves experienced effects which they deemed to be those of LSD, and any evidence showing that either witness had any background of drug experience so that his conclusion that the substance ingested was LSD should be credited. Crank's testimony that Dolan was tripping fails to supply these omissions because (1) no showing was made why Crank had any reason to believe Dolan's behavior was drug-induced, i. e., there was no showing that Crank was experienced in dealing with those who were on trips, (2) no showing was made as to any basis for Crank's belief that Dolan was tripping on LSD as opposed to some other drug, possibly a legal one, and (3) no showing was made (other than Crank's conjecture) that Dolan had taken one of the orange pills they had bought in Dayton, and that therefore his tripping should be attributed to the pills.