Kane County Nuggets

Internal education and training for the Kane County State's Attorney's Office.

  • Episodes
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Login

Other Crimes Evidence In Grooming Case Was Too Much – Conviction Reversed

April 11, 2025 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. Marshall, 2025 IL App (4th) 240368 (March). Episode 1105 (Duration 11:10)

Error to admit defendant’s ex-girlfriend’s testimony about her text messages from suspect because the statements at issue were unrelated to the charges against him.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Grooming, Other Crimes

Lynch Material Is Admissible Against A Victim For Acts Of Violence That Occurred Before Or After The Charged Event

June 12, 2024 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. DeGrave, 2023 IL App (1st) 192479 (June). Episode 1000 (Duration 9:48)

In a self-defense case, evidence of the alleged victim’s propensity for violence—via prior acts of violence—is relevant because, if the victim was violent on another occasion, it makes it more likely that the victim was the aggressor on the occasion in question.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Other Crimes, Self Defense Tagged With: Lynch Material

Gang Evidence Error Leads To Murder Reversal

April 1, 2024 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. Quezada, 2022 IL App (2d) 200195 (June). Episode 952 (Duration 9:51)

Errors concerning interrogation video and gang evidence lead to defendant not receiving a fair trial.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Other Crimes, Structural Error Tagged With: Cumulative Error, Gang Evidence

Certified Conviction May Be Used To Establish Other Crimes

March 4, 2024 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. Currie, 2022 IL App (4th) 210598 (May). Episode 944 (Duration 8:43)

certified copies of conviction alone are admissible evidence of defendant’s propensity to commit acts of domestic violence.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Other Crimes Tagged With: Domestic Violence

Prior Conviction For Enhancement Won’t Always Be An Element Of The Offense

February 19, 2020 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. Britt, 2020 IL App (3d) 170548 (February). Episode 739 (Duration 7:20)

A short refresher on how to admit other crimes evidence.

Read more

Filed Under: Other Crimes

Prior Bad Acts Or Other Crimes Evidence Has To Be Limited When Admitted

February 13, 2019 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. Felton, 2019 IL App (3d) 150595 (January). Episode 590 (Duration 11:02)

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Other Crimes

Other Crimes Sexual Propensity Evidence Establishes A Propensity To Commit Sex Crimes

February 6, 2019 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. Kelley, 2019 IL App (4th) 160598 (January). Episode 587 (Duration9:58)

Here’s a better way to look at how court’s are interpreting sexual propensity evidence.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Other Crimes

Trial Court Should Have Allowed Defendant To Introduce Evidence Of His Prior Drug Acquittal

November 8, 2017 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. Rosado, 2017 IL App (1st) 143741 (August). Episode 414 (Duration 9:02)

It was error to admit a drug deal defendant was acquitted of or he should have been allowed to tell the jury he was not guilty of that charge.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Other Crimes

Use This Modified IPI 3.14 With Domestic Violence Other Crimes Cases

March 7, 2017 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. Heller, 2017 IL App (4th) 140658 (January). Episode 304 (Duration 5:23)

Use this modified IPI 3.14 when other crimes evidence is admitted in a domestic battery pursuant to 725 ILCS 5/115-7.4.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Jury Instructions, Other Crimes

Prior Bad Acts Admissible Even If Found Not Guilty | In Sex Cases Other Crimes Are Coming In

October 26, 2014 By Samuel Partida, Jr.

People v. Baldwin, 2014 IL App (1st) 121725 (August). 

Prior bad acts admissible even if not guilty. In Illinois sex cases, other crimes evidence is likely to be admitted in a criminal trial. 

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Other Crimes

Categories

  • Accountability
  • Aggravated Battery
  • Appeal
  • Bail
  • Battery
  • Burglary
  • Charges
  • Confession
    • Attenuation
    • Miranda
    • Voluntary
  • Conflict Of Interest
  • Constitutional
  • Contempt Of Court
  • Criminal Possession
  • Discovery
  • Dismissal
  • Disorderly Conduct
  • Double Jeopardy
  • DUI
    • Actual Physical Control
    • Blood
    • DRE
    • Field Sobriety Tests
    • Proximate Cause
    • Suspension
  • Evidence
    • 115-10
    • Accomplice Testimony
    • DNA
    • Expert
    • Eyewitness
    • Hearsay
    • Opinion
    • Other Crimes
    • Over Hear
    • Prior Consistent Statement
    • Privilege
    • Silent Witness
    • Surveillance Privilege
  • Expungement
  • Felony Murder
  • Fitness For Trial
  • Grand Jury
  • Guilty Plea
  • Gun Crimes
    • Armed Habitual Criminal
    • Armed Violence
    • Reckless Discharge
    • UUW
  • Immigration
  • Indictment
  • Ineffective Assistance
    • Krankel Hearing
  • Joinder
  • Judicial Bias
  • Jury Instructions
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Lesser-Included
  • Mental State
    • Knowing
    • Recklessness
    • Sexual Gratification
  • Notice Requirement
  • Obstructing Justice
  • Postconviction Petition
  • Pre-Trial Detention
  • Procedure
  • Professional Responsibility
    • Conflict Of Interest
  • Prosecutorial Misconduct
  • Resisting Arrest
  • SCOTUS
  • Search & Seizure
    • Anonymous Tip
    • Community Care Taking
    • Consent To Search
    • Drug Dog
    • Exigent Circumstances
    • Good Faith Exception
    • Mistake of Law
    • Pat Down
    • Plain View
    • Probable Cause
    • Reasonable Suspicion
    • Search Incident To Arrest
    • Strip Search
    • Traffic Stop
    • Warrant
  • Second Degree Murder
  • Sentencing
    • Aggravation
    • Consecutive
    • Credit For Time Served
    • Dangerous Weapon
    • Enhancement
    • Extended Term
    • Fines & Fees
    • Forcible Felony
    • Gun Add-On
    • Life Sentence
    • Mandatory X
    • Merging Counts
    • Mitigation
    • Probation
    • Restitution
  • Sex Case
    • Child Porn
    • Grooming
    • SORA
  • Speedy Trial
  • Statute of Limitations
  • Structural Error
  • Threatening A Public Official
  • Trial
    • Affirmative Defense
    • Batson
    • Closing Argument
    • Confrontation
    • Immunity
    • Impeachment
    • Insanity Defense
    • Jury
    • Necessity Defense
    • Opening Statement
    • Pretrial Publicity
    • Self Defense
    • Stipulation
  • Vehicular Hijacking
  • Warrant

Tags

Car Search Cell Phone Collective Knowledge constructive possession Corpus Delicti Cumulative Error Defaced Firearm Domestic Violence Drug Induced Homicide Drugs Enhancement Entrapment Excited Utterance Expert Force Forfeiture by Wrongdoing Gang Evidence Gun Add-On Illinois Supreme Court Inventory Search Investigative Alert Jury Instructions Lynch Material Mistrial Nonconsensual Dissemination Odor of Cannabis One Act-One Crime Passenger Polling Jury PowerPoint Probable Cause Public Trial Retrograde Extrapolation Single Punch Social Media SOJ Stipulated Bench Trial Structural Error Sufficiency of the Evidence Traffic Stop Trespass Vehicular Invasion Video Voluntary Intoxication Warrant

Copyright © 2025 ● Disclaimer