Brad J. Lieberman v. Odie Washington, Warden of Dixon Correctional Center and Howard A. Peters, Iii, Director of Illinois Department of Corrections

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• concluding that limited references during a lengthy trial were harmless
• concluding that limited references during a lengthy trial were harmless
• recognizing defendant’s history of prior assaults on other women as modus operandi evidence
• recognizing defendant’s history of prior assaults on other women as modus operandi evidence
• noting evidence of guilt was “so persuasive” that it was almost impossible to conceive how the Doyle violation could have contributed significantly to the jury’s determination of guilt”
• applying plain error because “object[ing] to the ‘form of the question’ . . . [is] clearly a different ground than that upon which [the defendant] now bases his appeal.”

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