Appellate Court of Illinois· 5/1/1995

People v. Hester

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649 N.E.2d 1351
208 Ill. Dec. 690
271 Ill. App. 3d 954
1995 Ill. App. LEXIS 308

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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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