People v. Hardeman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting defendant’s argument that lack of physical evidence of injury to victim’s vaginal area contradicted victim’s claim that defendant put his penis inside her vagina
• finding no improper consideration when the trial court noted the defendant committed aggravated criminal sexual assault at knifepoint, because “there are wide variances in the risk of harm to victims of sexual attacks”
• “Inherent in a trial judge’s authority to conduct and preside over a criminal trial is the discretion 5 to conclude that a defendant’s conduct or pursuit of an otherwise legal right is frivolous and merely an attempt to frustrate the administration of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-03-27· cited 43×
• People v. Ross
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-10-28· cited 38×
• People v. Cordevant
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-06-19· cited 14×
• People v. Allen
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-04-22· cited 14×
• People v. Massa
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-02-01· cited 13×
• People v. Arnold
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-08-14· cited 10×
• People v. Dobrino
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-03-30· cited 9×
• People v. Jacobs
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1999-10-07· cited 8×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. King
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-05-20· cited 1,292×
• People v. Conover
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-03-31· cited 223×
• People v. Leonhardt
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-07-27· cited 19×
• People v. Wilson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-01-30· cited 16×
• People v. Fenderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-06-19· cited 14×