· 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
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- 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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