Supreme Court of Illinois

In a murder case, motion to suppress inculpatory statements made 35 hours after arrest and 5 hours before presentation to a judge for a probable cause hearing is denied where there was no showing that the statement was involuntary. Defendant's challenge to remarks made in closing argument that utilized the phrase "pure evil" is denied where the limited references were within the proper bounds of closing argument because the prosecutor used them to preface his argument that the facts shown by the evidence proved the defendant guilty.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/23/2006
• Published 01/23/2006

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee Goldfarb, John E. Nowak, Amy Watroba Kern, Annette Collins, Veronica Calderon Malavia and James E. Fitzgerald, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


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