Appellate Court of Illinois· 6/26/2007

People v. Saxon

Citations

871 N.E.2d 244
374 Ill. App. 3d 409

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concluding it was appropriate for the fact finder to infer the defendant was the perpetrator from evidence that he had sexual intercourse with the victim and other contradicted cireumstantial evidence
an inference is simply a reasonable deduction from the consideration of other facts that the fact finder may draw in its discretion but is not mandated to draw as a matter of law
defendant may be convicted solely on circumstantial evidence; trier of fact does not have to be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt as to each link in the chain of circumstantial evidence

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Judges: Carter, McDade, Lytton

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