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In Duckworth, Tammy Duckworth made statements to an undercover agent that her uncle would be the source of the drugs the agent agreed to buy from Tammy.
No. 4-88-0704
Opinion filed March 23, 1989. Rehearing denied April 24, 1989.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Vermilion County; the Hon. John P. O'Rourke, Judge, presiding.
Glenn H. Collier, of Jackson, Mitchell Collier, of Peoria, for appellant.
Craig H. DeArmond, State's Attorney, of Danville (Kenneth R. Boyle, Robert J. Biderman, and James Overholt, all of State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Office, of counsel), for the People.
JUSTICE GREEN delivered the opinion of the court:
Defendant Charles R. Duckworth was tried jointly with codefendant Tammy Duckworth on charges that they knowingly delivered a controlled substance in violation of section 401(a)(2) of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act (Act). (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 56 1/2, par. 1401(a)(2).) On April 29, 1988, the circuit court of Vermilion County entered judgment on jury verdicts finding both guilty of that offense. Defendant now appeals, contending (1) the court erred in admitting certain hearsay statements allegedly made by the codefendant and (2) the State failed to prove him guilty of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt. We reverse.
The testimony presented during the trial in this cause shows the following sequence of events, which was not contradicted. In July 1987, special agent Richard Scott of the Quad City Metropolitan Enforcement Group learned about a potential drug contact by the name of Tammy Duckworth through a confidential source. On July 8, 1987, Scott made two telephone calls to a woman in Danville. He later learned the voice of the woman he talked with on that date belonged to Tammy Duckworth.
Scott testified that, during the conversations with Tammy Duckworth, she agreed to sell him three ounces of cocaine every three to four weeks. He said she further informed him she would get the cocaine from an uncle who lived next door to her and the uncle told her each ounce of cocaine would cost $1,400. Scott and Tammy Duckworth arranged to meet on July 10, 1987, at the Village Mall in Danville to consummate the deal they had made.
On July 10, 1987, Scott arrived in Danville and proceeded to the arranged point with a Vermilion County surveillance team. He telephoned Tammy Duckworth, and she told him she would be driving a white Buick. He subsequently saw a vehicle fitting that description pull into the mall parking lot. He waved the driver over and asked her if her name was Tammy, to which she responded it was. Scott said that, when she entered his car, she told him "her uncle was going to be the source * * * and that her uncle had to show his man the money" before Scott could get the cocaine.
Scott refused to turn the money over to her without receiving the drugs but said he "suggested to her that she have her uncle drive to the Village Mall [and] park a couple rows away from [his] car." Scott said she could then go between his car and her uncle's car with the cocaine, and he would give her the money. Tammy Duckworth left briefly and returned a second time. She informed Scott she could not get three ounces but could only obtain an ounce and a half of cocaine. Scott agreed to purchase the lesser amount for $2,700, and Tammy Duckworth again left the mall parking lot. Scott said that, when Tammy Duckworth later returned to his vehicle, she gave him two bags of a powdery substance thereafter proved to be cocaine. Scott proceeded to count out the money and signaled the surveillance units that the deal had been made. Tammy Duckworth was then placed under arrest.
Robert Putnam, one of the surveillance officers positioned at the mall parking lot, witnessed the first two contacts between Tammy Duckworth and Agent Scott. He said he subsequently saw a blue van enter the parking lot and park nearby. Tammy Duckworth exited the passenger side of the van, walked past the surveillance vehicle and entered Scott's car. Putnam was then notified delivery had been made. Putnam and another surveillance officer approached the van and ordered the man sitting in the driver's side to exit the vehicle. The man, defendant Charles Duckworth, was then placed under arrest. Another female passenger of the van was also arrested. Another surveillance officer, Jack Smith, corroborated the testimony given by Putnam.
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Barrack supposedly sold it, too, but the media never looked into it, because way back in the 1980’s.... like this.
If her Republican opponents missed this, they deserved to lose.
“I bet this is the other Tammy Duckworth from Illinois, LOL. You meet Tammy Duckworths everywhere you go.”
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Actually....
https://www.whitepages.com/name/Tammy-Duckworth/IL
No media stories on this at all!
Is is a case of mistaken identity, or they are looking out for one of their own.
According to Wikipedia, Sen. Tammy Duckworth was attending the University of Hawaii from 1986 to 1989.
-PJ
Funny thing, nothing about this appears on her Wikipedia page. I wonder how that oversight could have happened. (/sarc)
It’s the Congressional way. Surprised Mayor Barry isn’t President now.
"....The family settled in Hawaii when she was sixteen. Her father was unemployed for a time, and the family relied on public assistance.[10] She graduated with honors from McKinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1985, having skipped the ninth grade. She graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and later received a Master of Arts in international affairs from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.[14]......."
It looks like she was in Hawaii in school at the time and that this was another person of the same name.
On legal grounds, not on a finding of innocence.
Here father’s obit: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=franklin-g-duckworth&pid=3249796&fhid=4278
His parents’ names, below, from transcript of his SS application:
Franklin Garthwright Duckworth
Birth Date: 9 Oct 1928
Birth Place: Luke Unknown, Maryland
[Luke, Maryland]
Death Date: 28 Jan 2005
Father: Joseph F Duckworth
Mother: Winnie D Smith
“Mayor Barry isn’t President now.”
“Da bitch set me up.”
5.56mm
“It looks like she was in Hawaii in school at the time and that this was another person of the same name.”
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Afraid someone’s barking up the wrong tree on this one, there’s a number of women with the name.
Yep!
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