People v. Lewis

The defendant, Ethel Lewis, was charged by indictment with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 561/2, par. 1401(c)). She was alleged to have delivered on November 3, 1988, less than one gram of a substance containing cocaine to an undercover officer. In September of 1990 a jury found her guilty as charged. Following the denial of her pro se motion for a new trial, in which she asserted the incompetence of trial counsel, she was sentenced on December 12, 1990, to probation for a term of 30 months conditioned upon, inter alia, the performance of 100 hours of…