Legal Opinion
Lusher v. State
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided June 18, 1979No. 3-778A161PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARRARD, Presiding Judge.
Appellant Lusher was convicted of delivering a controlled substance, phencyclidine. Because we reverse we consider only two of Lusher’s assigned errors.
Prosecution witness Leonard Burgess was a police informer who allegedly made the “buy” from Lusher on November 9, 1973. Burgess candidly admitted to being a heavy user of such drugs as marijuana, hashish, L.S.D., mescaline and PCP. He testified that at the time of the alleged offense he was using drugs but had been trying to quit. Voir dire examination, out of the presence of the jury, revealed that at some time in…
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