DECATUR - A Macon County Circuit Court jury deliberated about 30 minutes Tuesday and found Deeandre J. Woodland, 27, guilty of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and felon in possession of a weapon, stemming from a March 22, 2006, drug raid.

Presiding Circuit Judge Ted Paine scheduled Woodland's sentencing hearing for Oct. 27. He revoked Woodland's bond and ordered him held in jail pending sentencing.

Both offenses are Class 2 felonies, which normally carry sentences of probation or a term of three to seven years in prison or a fine up to $25,000.

First Assistant State's Attorney Jay Scott, who prosecuted the case, said Woodland faces special circumstances in his sentencing on both charges. He said because Woodland was on parole from an earlier conviction when arrested in 2006, his possession of a weapon by a felon conviction is subject to a prison term of three to 14 years.

A person convicted of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon cannot receive probation under state law, so Woodland must serve at least a three-year prison term on that conviction, Scott said.

Woodland pleaded guilty in 2003 to one count of unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to deliver based on an arrest in 2002. Because of a series of delays, he was not sentenced on that plea until Jan. 3, 2005, when he received two years in prison to be followed by one year on parole.

Tuesday's trial consisted largely of the testimony of police detectives David Dailey, James Atkinson and Matthew Knuckles, who participated in a raid at 12:50 p.m. March 22, 2006, on a house in the 300 block of North 18th Street.

All three officers testified they observed Woodland and several other people on the front porch of the residence as they arrived, saw him begin to run north from the house and, as he did so, reach into his waistband, pull out a handgun and throw it toward a storm drain at 18th and North streets.

Officers recovered the .45-caliber semiautomatic gun that had one live round in the firing chamber.

Defense attorney David Ellison told the jury that none of the officers told exactly the same story on the witness stand. He said Woodland was wearing baggy sweatpants held up with a draw string that day and questioned whether he could have carried the heavy handgun in the band of his pants without losing it.

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