People v. Hester

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• “Generally, evidence of a testifying defendant’s prior conviction may be -5- admitted solely to impeach his testimony.”
• “If two or more people share immediate and exclusive control over an object, or share the intention and power to exercise control over it, then each person has possession.”
• “defendant’s prior conviction was properly admitted as evidence directly probative of that element of the offense, similar to the admission of evidence relevant to any other element of an offense.”
• “[T]he situs of the defendant’s possession does not constitute a material element of the offense [of unlawful use of a 2 To be sure, this case is several decades old, but the relevant language of section 24-1.1(a
• finding no error in trial court’s delivery of operability instruction

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