Supreme Court of Illinois

In a conviction for armed robbery where the defendant made a pro se attempt to raise a Batson claim, the supreme court retains jurisdiction and the cause is remanded with directions to hold a hearing to reconstruct the record of voir dire proceedings where no record was made of the voir dire process, and thus the court is unable to determine whether the defendant has been prejudiced by trial counsel's deficient performance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2007
• Published 08/02/2007

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Agostinelli, Ottawa, Thomas A. Lilien, Deputy Defenders, Sherry R. Silvern, Assistant Defender, Elgin, all of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Kevin Lyons, State's Attorney, Peoria (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Michael M. Glick, and Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.