People v. Saunders

On March 12, 1975, defendant Donald Saunders entered an admission to having possessed a controlled substance (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 56%, par. 1402(b)) on June 6, 1974, and he was sentenced to a term of 4 years probation. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 56%, par. 1410.) The factual basis for the guilty plea was that defendant had sold two tinfoil packets, containing .40 grams of heroin to a law-enforcement officer. A petition charging violation of probation was filed, and it was established at the subsequent hearing upon that petition, that defendant had been found guilty of the crimes of…