Illinois Supreme Court· 4/16/1998

People v. Manning

Citations

695 N.E.2d 423
182 Ill. 2d 193
230 Ill. Dec. 933
1998 Ill. LEXIS 368

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rejecting a similar challenge based upon “speculation that another person might have committed the offense”
rejecting a similar challenge based upon “speculation that another person might have committed the offense”
reversing and remanding for a new trial where the highly prejudicial evidence of prior bad acts clearly outweighed its probative value
“Regarding [the] defendant’s insinuation that someone else murdered the victim, we note that speculation that another person might have committed the offense does not necessarily raise a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the accused.”
“speculation that another person might have committed the offense does not necessarily raise a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the accused”
“The law distrusts the inference that because a person has committed other crimes, he or she is more likely to have committed the current crime.”

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Judges: Freeman, Heiple, Miller, McMorrow

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