People v. Outlaw

              NO. 4-08-0350 Filed 3/25/09
IN THE APPELLATE COURT
OF ILLINOIS
FOURTH DISTRICT
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
MARK OUTLAW,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Appeal from
Circuit Court of
Macon County
No. 07CF6
Honorable
John K. Greanias,
Judge Presiding.
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JUSTICE MYERSCOUGH delivered the opinion of the court:
In March 2008, a jury found defendant, Mark Outlaw,
guilty of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with
intent to deliver (720 ILCS 570/401(a)(2)(B) (West 2006)). In
May 2008, the trial court sentenced defendant to 28 years'
imprisonment. Defendant appeals, arguing (1) the court erred by
denying his motion to suppress where the police officers ques-tioned
defendant after he invoked his right to counsel, (2)
defendant was denied a fair trial where the State's witnesses
repeatedly alluded to other-crimes evidence, (3) the court erred
when it allowed a police detective to testify as an expert on
whether defendant had formulated the mental state that consti-tuted
an element of the offense, and (4) the court erred when it
coerced the single "'holdout'" juror to surrender his or her
individual judgment.
The trial court did not err by denying defendant's
motion to suppress where defendant initiated further communica-tion
with the officers and knowingly and voluntarily waived his