Illinois Supreme Court· 11/17/2005

People v. Mertz

Citations

842 N.E.2d 618
218 Ill. 2d 1
299 Ill. Dec. 581
2005 Ill. LEXIS 1612

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contrasting the reliability and admissibility of statements made by an accused and those made by jailhouse informants, suggesting that jailhouse informants are not inherently reliable
rejecting the defendant’s argument that a jailhouse confession should have been excluded as unreliable because “the best way to ensure reliability” is to subject the declarant to cross-examination
“Simply because the defendant - 21 - views his substance abuse history as mitigating does not require the sentencer to do so.”
\The defendant's possession of Pipe and Fire Bomb Designs and The Anarchist's Cookbook is sufficiently related to defendant's act of arson to support admission.\
in prosecution for first degree murder, home invasion, and aggravated criminal sexual assault, any error in admitting descriptions of defendant’s tattoos and e-mail address was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt in light of the overwhelming evidence

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Judges: Karmeier, Kilbride

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