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Illinois Supreme Court· 11/10/1983

People v. Ramirez

Citations

  • 457 N.E.2d 31
  • 98 Ill. 2d 439
  • 75 Ill. Dec. 241
  • 1983 Ill. LEXIS 486

How courts have described this case

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  • holding the State permissibly introduced evidence of the defendant’s other crimes at sentencing where witness testimony was subject to cross-examination and the information “bore directly upon the likelihood that the defendant would commit other offenses”
  • stating evidence of prior offenses met the standards of LaPointe when it was presented through witnesses and subject to - 16 - cross-examination
  • finding it proper for State’s expert witness to give opinion as to whether defendant was acting under the influence of an extreme mental or emotional disturbance at the time of the murder, but noting that the jury was free to reject that opinion based on the facts before it
  • finding it proper for State’s expert witness to give opinion as to whether defendant was acting under the influence of an extreme mental or emotional disturbance at the time of the murder, but noting that the jury was free to reject that opinion based on the facts before it
  • “[defendant] has sat silent before you, before his accusers and before the tryer [sic] of fact and offered no explanation for the murder”
  • “the trial judge’s refusal to instruct the jury that they were not to consider the defendant’s silence constituted reversible error”

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Judges: Clark, Simon

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