People v. Brandstetter

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the. opinion of the court:

After a trial by jury in the circuit court of Sangamon County, defendant, Wanda Brandstetter, was convicted on August 22,1980, of the offense of bribery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 33—1(a)). On November 7, 1980, she was fined $500 and placed on conditional discharge requiring her to perform 150 hours of public service work. The case arose from an occurrence on May 14, 1980, in Springfield, when, pursuant to conversations concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Federal Constitution (ERA), defendant handed to State…