People v. Speed

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• the court improperly considered the defendant’s assertion of innocence as an aggravating factor, where it stated the assertion “tilted the scale” toward a harsher sentence
• “After a portion of the testimony I thought perhaps a ten[-]year sentence might be appropriate. When Mr. Speed said he didn’t commit the crime [for] which he stands charged and convicted [that] tilted the scale the other way.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
• “[I]t is ... well established that the court may consider the lack of a penitent spirit in determining the appropriate sentence to be imposed upon a defendant, since this is a factor which may have a bearing on the defendant’s potential for rehabilitation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Ward
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-10-17· cited 203×
• People v. Morando
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-04-29· cited 32×
• People v. Hall
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-08-12· cited 22×
• People v. Byrd
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-01-10· cited 21×
• People v. Evans
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-05-09· cited 19×
• People v. Butler
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-10-18· cited 16×
• People v. Donlow
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2020-03-24· cited 15×
• State v. Brouwer
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-07-23· cited 11×
• People v. Avila
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-03-01· cited 10×
• People v. Holmes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-09-08· cited 9×
• People v. Coleman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-07-22· cited 8×
• People v. Sprawls
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-10-17· cited 5×
• People v. Marchese
  New York Supreme Court· 1994-01-25· cited 2×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Oscar Poteet v. William Fauver, Warden, New Jersey State Prison
  Third Circuit· 1975-05-07· cited 57×
• People v. Costello
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-04-21· cited 39×
• People v. Griffiths
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-02-08· cited 38×
• People v. Sherman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-10-11· cited 22×
• People v. Coleman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-04-25· cited 16×
• People v. Moffett
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-12-30· cited 12×
• People v. Mosley
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-08-19· cited 11×
• People v. Porter
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-04-01· cited 8×
• People v. Genovese
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-11-15· cited 7×
• People v. Wyatt
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-11-10· cited 2×