Supreme Court of Illinois

In a conviction for unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, a new trial is ordered where the trial court's refusal to exclude the description of the prior conviction in proving the offense element that defendant was a felon, after a stipulation was offered, was not harmless and was reversible error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/04/2004
• Published 06/04/2004

Judges

• Chief Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan and Lisa Madigan, Attorneys General, Springfield, and Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney, Wheaton (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Linda D. Woloshin and David H. Iskowich, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Martin P. Moltz and Peter N. Stein, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Elgin, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Bonnie Kim, Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellee.