Court Opinion

ID: 9517206
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:08:46.156226+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:41:27.482002
License: Public Domain

Mr. JUSTICE EBERSPACHER, dissenting: I do not agree with the interpretation of the Dangerous Drug Abuse Act or the propriety of its application in this case; first, because the State’s Attorney of Effingham County had consented to the transfer of the burglary charges to Marion County solely for the purpose of the acceptance of a plea of guilty, and secondly, because the record, in my opinion, clearly shows that the defendant was not an addict under the Act, and so acknowledged in open court to the satisfaction of the trial judge. Obviously defendant’s petition alleging himself to be an addict was a ploy to attempt to escape his entering the guilty pleas which he had agreed to enter in order to get his cases transferred to Marion County, for the purpose of there pleading guilty. I would therefore affirm.