People v. Miller

Defendant, William Lee Miller, was found guilty in a jury trial of the unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 56x/2, par. 1401(b)), and was sentenced to a six-year term of imprisonment and fined $6,000.

Defendant raises the following issues on appeal: (1) that he was denied a fair trial by a remark made in the prosecutor’s opening statement and by an answer of a State witness which was objected to and sustained; (2) that he was denied a fair trial as a result of a prejudicial article in a newspaper found in the possession of a juror; (3) that the prosecutor’s…