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People v. Jackson

Citations

  • 741 N.E.2d 1026
  • 318 Ill. App. 3d 321
  • 251 Ill. Dec. 848
  • 2000 Ill. App. LEXIS 958

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  • defense counsel was ineffective where his strategy established an element of the offense that had not been established in the State’s case
  • when defense counsel upsets the adversarial balance between defense and prosecution, the trial fails to serve as an adversarial testing ground
  • defense counsel was ineffective where his strategy established an element of the offense that had not been established in the State’s case
  • “For defense counsel to elicit testimony which proves a critical element of the State’s case where the State has not done so upsets the balance between defense and prosecution so that defendant’s trial is rendered unfair”
  • \For defense counsel to elicit testimony which proves a critical element of the State's case where the State has not done so upsets the balance between defense and prosecution so that defendant's trial is rendered unfair.\
  • \For defense counsel to elicit testimony which proves a critical element of the State’s case where the State has not done so upsets the balance between defense and prosecution so that defendant’s trial is rendered unfair.\

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Judges: Gordon

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