People v. Hawkins

Opinion

WISEMAN, J.

Defendant Bobbie Lynn Hawkins was convicted of opening or maintaining a place for the purpose of unlawfully selling, giving away, or using crack cocaine and of misdemeanor child endangerment. She argues that the People failed to establish the corpus delicti for the opening-or-maintaining offense by evidence independent of her own extrajudicial statements. She also argues that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction for that offense, and that the jury was not properly instructed on the elements of the opening-or-maintaining offense.

In this opinion, we discuss…