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· 7/19/1991

People v. O'BANNER

Citations

  • 575 N.E.2d 1261
  • 215 Ill. App. 3d 778
  • 159 Ill. Dec. 201

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that where a defendant alleged ineffective assistance of counsel and testified to her communications with her counsel, “the State was not precluded from calling [the] defendant’s trial counsel as a witness at [a] hearing on the [defendant’s] motion for a new trial”
  • communications with an attorney are put in issue when a criminal defendant asserts ineffective assistance of counsel
  • where counsel failed to call a witness who would establish that defendant had not shot the victim, when witness previously told counsel that he had actually shot the victim

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Judges: LaPORTA

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