People v. Willis

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• holding that error occurred where the trial court failed to question any of the prospective jurors about Rule 431(b)(3)
• vacating the court system fee where the defendant was convicted of possession of a controlled substance, an offense not related to the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar municipal ordinance
• vacating the court system fee where the defendant was convicted of possession of a controlled substance, an offense not related to the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar municipal ordinance
• vacating the court system fee where the defendant was convicted of possession of a controlled substance, an offense not related to the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar municipal ordinance
• analyzing under the second prong of plain error and holding that the defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by the trial court’s failure to comply with Rules 431(b)(3) and (b)(4) because the “defendant presented evidence through his own testimony”
• jurors asked if they would “ ‘follow’ ” the law as stated in the Zehr principles

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Marshall
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2011-05-19· cited 192×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-12-02· cited 32×
• People v. Willis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-05-13· cited 22×
• People v. Blankenship
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-11-15· cited 22×
• People v. Rigsby
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-12-03· cited 13×
• People v. Anthony
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-03-31· cited 13×
• People v. Ware
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-02-10
• People v. White
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-01-07