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People v. Davis

Citations

  • 357 N.E.2d 792
  • 65 Ill. 2d 157
  • 2 Ill. Dec. 572
  • 1976 Ill. LEXIS 419

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that a court may take “judicial notice of matters of record in other cases in the same court”
  • explaining defendant had an opportunity to oppose judicial notice but did not deny the accuracy of the noticed fact
  • providing for judicial notice of a fact “not subject to reasonable dispute in that it is *** capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned
  • “Although not generally known, matters may be so capable of verification as to be beyond reasonable controversy and hence proper subjects of judicial notice”
  • “[Mjatters susceptible of judicial notice include facts ‘capable of immediate and accurate demonstration by resort to easily accessible sources of indisputable accuracy’ ”
  • \[M]atters susceptible of judicial notice include facts `capable of immediate and accurate demonstration by resort to easily accessible sources of indisputable accuracy'\

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Judges: Underwood, Goldenhersh, Kluczynski

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