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People v. Cook

Citations

  • 262 Ill. App. 3d 1005
  • 640 N.E.2d 274
  • 203 Ill. Dec. 615
  • 1994 Ill. App. LEXIS 632

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  • “Giving this instruction at the behest of the State may unfairly accentuate defendant’s past criminal record.”
  • \Giving this instruction at the behest of the State may unfairly accentuate defendant's past criminal record.\
  • where the victim’s injuries were extensive and the defendant was unscathed, the “apparent one-sided nature of the struggle support[ed] the State’s theory that the defendant did not act in self-defense”

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Judges: McNulty

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