People v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that where record silent as to whether defendant took part in decision to tender instruction, there can be no finding that defendant disagreed with counsel's request or suffered prejudice
• reversal would be warranted if the record showed the ultimate decision not to submit an instruction was made as a matter of trial strategy by trial counsel
• signifying membership in a criminal gang

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Holman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-06-10
• Deborah Lacy v. MeHarry General Hospital
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2017-12-19

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Carlson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-04-18· cited 666×
• The People v. Bernette
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1964-01-22· cited 265×
• People v. Brocksmith
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1994-10-20· cited 142×
• People v. Smith
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-04-19· cited 140×
• People v. Hope
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-02-21· cited 134×
• People v. Buchanan
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-01-22· cited 44×
• People v. Guajardo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-06-28· cited 28×
• People v. Schuning
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-03-22· cited 22×
• People v. Brocksmith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-12-01· cited 22×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-12-31· cited 8×