People v. Schoonover, 2021 IL 124832 (December). Episode 849 (Duration 5:07)
725 ILCS 5/115-11 is a constitutionally valid way to remove most people from a courtroom when a child sex victim testifies.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Schoonover, 2021 IL 124832 (December). Episode 849 (Duration 5:07)
725 ILCS 5/115-11 is a constitutionally valid way to remove most people from a courtroom when a child sex victim testifies.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Hollahan, 2020 IL 125091 (September). Episode 821 (Duration 6:50)
Illinois Supreme Court reverses appellate court on appropriateness of allowing a jury to re-watch video in the courtroom.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Jenkins, 2020 IL App (1st) 172422 (August). Episode 809 (Duration 8:02)
Judge should have continued the case so that private counsel could file his appearance even though it was the day of trial.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Matute, 2020 IL App (2d) 170786 (February). Episode 757 (Duration 8:05)
Defendant’s chose to not make a sentence in allocution cannot be used against him at sentencing.
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People v. Johnson, 2019 IL App (3d) 150352-B (December). Episode 719 (Duration 5:40)
Error to not allow the jury to take notes during a trial, but it’s not structural error.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Groebe, 2019 IL App (1st) 180503 (October). Episode 701 (Duration 6:23)
Another judge takes the DUI video into chambers and watches it there alone. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Cavitt, 2019 IL App (2d) 170149 (July). Episode 690 (Duration 20:28)
Second District sort sees the Third Districts point on playing video in the courtroom, but there was other problems with the way this judge did it. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Ryder, 2019 IL App (5th) 160027 (July); People v. Parker 2019 IL App (3d) 170108 (July); People v. Pacheco, 2019 IL App (3d) 150880 (July). Episode 689 (Duration 11:25)
A series of video in the courtroom cases we should know about.
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By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Jordan, 2019 IL App (1st) 161848 (August). Episode 683 (Duration 7:14)
They started picking a jury then he wanted a bench trial and the judge said no. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
Structural error is the kind of trial mistake that is so bad the appellate court automatically reverses the conviction. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Hollahan, 2019 IL App (3d) 150556 (June). Episode 652 (Duration 12:40)
Third District structural error interpretation is a radical departure from the traditional way of playing a video for a jury. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Johnson, 2019 IL App (1st) 162517 (March).Episode 614 (Duration 11:45)
No valid jury waiver in the record even though he apparently signed the waiver form.