Supreme Court of Illinois

Conviction for possession with intent to distribute is affirmed over defendant's claim that she was denied her right to confront the witnesses against her where: 1) counsel's decision to stipulate as to the identification of the substance found in her car was not among those decisions that are reserved personally to a criminal defendant; and 2) it was clear that counsel made a strategic decision to focus on the issue of knowledge, rather than on the identity of the substance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2005
• Published 06/06/2007

Judges

• Justice KARMEIER delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Terence M. Patton, State's Attorney, Cambridge (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Linda D. Woloshin and Leah C. Myers, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Lawrence M. Bauer and Terry A. Mertel, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Donna Kelly and Thomas A. Karalis, Assistant Defenders, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, for appellee.