Appellate Court of Illinois· 6/29/1994

People v. Berry

Citations

642 N.E.2d 1307
264 Ill. App. 3d 773
205 Ill. Dec. 190

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stating that an alibi “witness can be impeached with prior silence where it is shown that the witness had the opportunity to make an exculpatory statement and, under the circumstances, a person would normally have made that statement”
comments on a defendant’s postarrest silence are still analyzed to determine if they were of such magnitude to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, as is suggested by the disjunctive “or” separating the two prongs of plain-error analysis

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Judges: Greiman

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