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People v. Workman

Case Date: 03/17/2000
Court: 2nd District Appellate
Docket No: 2-98-1578

People v. Workman, No. 2-98-1578

2nd District, 17 March 2000

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,

Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

JOLLYN C. WORKMAN,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Du Page County.

No. 98--DT--0323

Honorable Mark W. Dwyer, Judge, Presiding.

JUSTICE COLWELL delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial, defendant appeals his conviction of driving under the influence of a drug or combination of drugsto a degree that renders the person incapable of safely driving (625 ILCS 5/11--501 (a)(3) (West 1996)). Defendant wasacquitted of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) and of driving under the influence of a combination of alcohol andany other drug (625 ILCS 5/11--501(a)(2), (a)(4) (West 1998)). Defendant claims the evidence was unsatisfactory regardingwhether he was under the influence of a drug to the degree that it rendered him incapable of safely driving and thus theevidence was insufficient to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. We reverse.

On January 25, 1998, Bensenville police officer Joseph Golbeck was on duty at about 10 p.m. when he went to the area ofGrand Avenue and Crown Road in Bensenville. He had been on the police force for about 4