People v. Nash, 2024 IL App (4th) 221078 (November). Episode 1078 (Duration 13:08)
The warrant was not removed from the system due simply to a garden-variety clerical error.
[Read more…]Jessie Smollet, The Case Where Nobody Looks Good
People v. Smollet, 2024 IL 130431 (November). Episode 1076 (Duration 12:52)
“The public justifiably expects the State, above all others, to keep its bond.” Bowers v. State, 500 N.E.2d 203, 204 (Ind. 1986).
[Read more…]Dismissing Indictment On Due Process Violation Is A High High Burden For The Defense
People v. Basile, 2024 IL 129026 (October). Episode 1071 (Duration 12:28)
Here, defendant has utilized the vague and uncertain concerns of a single juror to justify an intrusion on the grand jury’s determination of probable cause by recasting a sufficiency of the evidence challenge into a claim of misleading testimony.
[Read more…]Prosecutors Get Fired Then Charged – What Happened?
People v. Trutenko, 2024 IL App (1st) 232333 (June). Episode 1063 (Duration 16:37)
On direct examination by the defense, the prosecutor revealed, for the first time, that he had a decades-long personal relationship with the snitch.
[Read more…]Prosecutor Had A Duty To Correct Inaccurate Information Provided To The Grand Jury
People v. Basile, 2022 IL App (2d) 210740 (September). Episode 961 (Duration 5:42)
State had a duty to correct false testimony given in the grand jury room.
[Read more…]Why It Can’t Be Too Easy To Challenge A Grand Jury Indictment
People v. Nolan, 2019 IL App (2d) 180354 (April). Episode 627 (Duration 9:29)
Trial judge grants defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment in part because the officer did not testify in the hearing.
[Read more…]Reversible Error For The State To Spring A Doctored Image Before The Jury
People v. Middleton, 2018 IL App (1st) 152040 (June). Episode 503 (Duration 17:07)
Here’s the photo…
[Read more…]When Prosecution Tries To Get Into Police Steps In Their Investigation That’s The First Hint Something Improper Is Happening
People v. Ochoa, 2017 IL App (1st) 140204 (February). Episode 315 (Duration 29:55)
Defendant’s murder conviction is reversed a second time for the same reason it was reversed the first time (Cameron Hearing Problem).
[Read more…]Perogatory And Pejorative Name Calling During An Opening Statement Is Going To Draw A Reversal
People v. Jones, 2016 IL App (1st) 141008 (October). Episode 257 (Duration 6:59)
Big problems with this prosecutor’s opening statement.
[Read more…]Prosecutor Gets Busted Stretching The Truth
People v. Weinke, 2016 IL App (1st) 141196 (March). Episode 148 (Duration 10:43)
“While we have no desire to impugn the ASA’s reputation, given the power and autonomy that prosecutors have over a criminal defendant’s fate, we cannot ignore what happened.”
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