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Illinois Supreme Court· 8/10/2000

People v. Patterson

Citations

  • 735 N.E.2d 616
  • 192 Ill. 2d 93
  • 249 Ill. Dec. 12
  • 2000 Ill. LEXIS 1222

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that postconviction challenge to voluntariness of confession was “barred by res judicata” where, on direct appeal, reviewing court “addressed the voluntariness of defendant’s confession and held that the trial court did not err in finding defendant’s confession voluntary”
  • holding that postconviction challenge to voluntariness of confession was “barred by res judicata” where, on direct appeal, reviewing court “addressed the voluntariness of defendant’s confession and held that the trial court did not err in finding defendant’s confession voluntary”
  • noting that, “beyond interviewing anyone who had ever been a prisoner at Area 2, we can conceive of no manner in which [defense counsel] reasonably could have obtained this information”
  • acknowledging that under Federal Rule of Evidence 104(a), hearsay evidence is admissible during a motion to suppress hearing even though it is not admissible at trial
  • noting that the claims were “strikingly similar” to other claims involving the use of a typewriter cover to simulate suffocation, the use of a gun as a threat, and beatings that did not leave physical evidence
  • reversing for a third-stage evidentiary hearing, the court stressed that “defendant has consistently claimed” his confession was coerced

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Judges: Rathje, Heiple

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