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Appellate Court of Illinois· 6/19/2006

People v. Sullivan

Citations

  • 853 N.E.2d 754
  • 366 Ill. App. 3d 770
  • 304 Ill. Dec. 677
  • 2006 Ill. App. LEXIS 522

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  • finding a witness’s identification of defendant reliable when the witness testified that he “had seen defendant ‘plenty of times’ before the night of the shooting and could have recognized him easily”
  • no reversible error where prosecutor remarked that \`jails throughout the United States are filled with people * * * convicted of murder' \
  • identification sufficient where eyewitness had seen the defendant “plenty of times” and identified him by his nickname on the night of the crime
  • identification found reliable, in part, where the witness identified the defendant by nickname on the night of the offense
  • identification sufficient where eyewitness had seen the defendant “plenty of times” and identified him by his nickname on 15 the night of the crime
  • the trier of fact may “accept or reject as much or as little of a witness’s testimony as it pleases”

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Judges: Cahill

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