Appellate Court of Illinois

In a prosecution for first degree murder and armed robbery the judgment is reversed and remanded where: 1) the evidence at his trial was sufficient as a matter of law to sustain his conviction for the charge of first degree murder; 2) there is insufficient evidence to find that the exclusion of the hospital protocols explaining the conclusion that the victim died from respiratory arrest not related to the armed robbery or any evidence of negligence would have changed the outcome of the proceedings; and 3) defendant was prejudiced by defense counsel's failure to request a compulsion instruction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/08/2007
• Published 06/08/2007

Judges

• Justice JOSEPH GORDON delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Appellate Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kristine A. Neal, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Fitzgerald, Mary P. Needham, Ljubica D. Popovic, Assistant State's Attorneys, Cook County, Chicago, for Appellee.