People v. Ryan

Following a joint bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, defendants, Thomas Ryan and Edward Joseph, were found guilty of delivery of a controlled substance (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 56V2, par. 1401) and sentenced to six-year terms of imprisonment. On appeal defendants contend that: (1) the testimony of the State’s crime lab chemist should have been stricken when the State allegedly “failed to refresh the witness’ recollection after she testified that she had no independent recollection” of the tests she performed on the controlled substances; and (2) the State’s alleged failure to…