Appellate Court of Illinois

A conviction and sentence for first degree murder where the jury watched a videotape where defendant described how he took part in the murder is reversed and remanded for a new trial where the state did not prove attenuation by clear and convincing evidence and the confessions made by the defendant are to be suppressed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2007
• Published 05/22/2007

Judges

• Presiding Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Appellate Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy J. Joyce, Chicago, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Cook County, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, John Nowak, Sally L. Dilgart, of counsel), for Appellee.