State v. Morrison

In the early morning hours of September 27, 2002, Daniel Shore and his friend defendant Lewis B. Morrison trolled the streets of Plainfield for drugs. When they found a dealer, defendant took their pooled money and bought four decks of heroin — little glassine packets containing the powdery substance. Afterwards, defendant gave two of the decks to Shore. Later that day, Shore died of a heroin overdose.

A grand jury returned an indictment charging defendant with distributing the heroin to Shore and, as such, with causing Shore’s drug-induced death. Based on the grand jury record, the trial…