Jeffrey Lovinger v. Circuit Court of the 19th Judicial Circuit, Lake County, Illinois, Respondent

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• stating that the defendant did not waive an objection by declining to interrupt the judge “in the few moments between the surprise mistrial declaration and the judge's departure from the courtroom”
• \the trial judge took the kind of abrupt and precipitate action which is inconsistent with the exercise of sound discretion\
• “the trial judge took the kind of abrupt and precipitate action which is inconsistent with the exercise of sound discretion”
• defendant’s earlier mistrial motion could not constitute consent to court’s later mistrial declaration because it was based on different grounds and was merely perfunctory
• “In light of the prosecution’s [poor] performance, [petitioner] would not likely have chosen to assent to the mistrial declaration had he been given time to deliberate.”
• “Whether or not options short of mis- trial were feasible and preferable . . . , the court did not consider them and thus did not afford proper solicitude for [the defendant’s] valued right to continue with the trial.”

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