Appellate Court of Illinois

A conviction and sentence to a total of 100 years' imprisonment is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) improper cross-examination of a defense witness by the prosecution; 2) the trial court improper admission of other crimes evidence and evidence of details surrounding recovery of the murder weapon; 3) the prosecutor's improper elicitation testimony from defendant regarding the testimony of other witnesses who testified against him; 4) the trial court improperly precluded defense witness testimony; and 5) excessiveness of the sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2007
• Published 05/24/2007

Judges

• Justice CAMPBELL delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Appellate Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Giovannini & Olshansky, Chicago (Dennis A. Giovannini, David S. Olshansky, Stefan Fenner, of counsel), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Cook County (James E. Fitzgerald, Hareena Meghani-Wakely, Joan F. Frazier, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.