People v. Jura

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officers should not have been permitted to relate the description of the offender they received from dispatch
• emphasizing that “the content of the radio call, including the type of crime reported and the description of the offender, was irrelevant in light of the testimony of all three police officers that they observed defendant with a gun fleeing down the alley”
• finding reversible error where the State repeatedly relied on police hearsay statements of a radio call that the defendant matched the description of the person with the gun, which was the essence of the dispute
• the hearsay was used as substantive evidence to prove “the very essence of the dispute: whether the defendant was the man who possessed the gun”
• defense counsel’s failure to challenge the admissibility of the various hearsay statements prejudiced the defendant and deprived him of a fair trial
• “The error in repetition of the hearsay by the police witnesses was exacerbated by the State’s use of the hearsay in opening statement and closing argument.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).