Appellate Court of Illinois· 1/29/1996

People v. Rivera

Citations

661 N.E.2d 429
277 Ill. App. 3d 811
214 Ill. Dec. 575
1996 Ill. App. LEXIS 39

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holding hearsay identification testimony to be reversible error despite the court’s limiting instruction where the State referenced the hearsay in another question and closing argument
reviewing the prosecutor’s closing argument under the plain-error doctrine because the defendant failed to register a contemporaneous objection, although he made a motion for mistrial
reviewing the prosecutor's closing argument under the plain-error doctrine because the defendant failed to register a contemporaneous objection, although he made a motion for mistrial
where a witness initially testified that citizens identified defendant as an offender by saying, “that’s them,” subsequent references to the “conversation” was improper hearsay
hearsay identifying defendant as perpetrator cannot be explained away as “police procedure”
“Hearsay testimony identifying the defendant as the one who committed the crime cannot be explained away as ‘police procedure,’ even where the trial judge limits the evidence to a nonhearsay purpose.”

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Judges: Wolfson

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