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.
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People v. Lewis, 2022 IL 126705 (June). Episode 948 (Duration 4:57)
Once defendant sufficiently raises an entrapment defense, the entrapment statute requires the State to prove (1) defendant was predisposed and (2) the government agents merely afforded him the opportunity or facility for committing the offenses. 720 ILCS 5/7-12 (West 2014).
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People v. Hubbell, 2021 IL App (2d) 190442 (May). Episode 897 (Duration 8:34)
Defendant said one photo of his buttock did not constitute grooming because it was not a request for the child to send, in return, a photograph of her “sex organs.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Vara, 2016 IL App (2d) 140849 (December). Episode 277 (Duration 9:42)
There is a difference between grooming and solicitation charges, clever reading of the code goes nowhere.
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