Appellate Court of Illinois· 10/21/1991

People v. Young

Citations

581 N.E.2d 371
220 Ill. App. 3d 98
163 Ill. Dec. 420
1991 Ill. App. LEXIS 1801

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stating multiple experts “unanimously concluded that he was suffering from paranoia and delusional thinking,” with one expert opining that the defendant’s alleged conduct was “more in line with a person suffering persecutory delusions than a rational man”
“Had there been no bona fide defense, defense counsel would not have been ineffective for not raising one”.
“[I]t is hard to imagine why else defendant would have coerced his former wife at gunpoint into signing a ‘confession’ that she killed someone who was not dead.”
“Such cross-examination and argument as he made, moreover, were almost entirely directed toward his theory that a conviction of armed violence would be an improper double enhancement of an intimidation conviction. This theory is unsound as a matter of law.”

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Judges: Woodward

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