125 Ill. App. 2d 48 - People v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

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24 state decisions

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1. ““* # * As we have frequently stated, all motions for continuances are addressed to the discretion of the trial court and considered in light of the diligence shown on the part of the movant. In the case before us, the attorney for defendant made no statement of what he intended to prove in mitigation if the continuance were granted. It is vital that attorneys for defendants make a statement as to what, if anything, would be presented in mitigation so as to give the trial court court the opportunity of determining whether or not a continuance should be granted. In such case, the trial judge could determine why a continuance was necessary. Without such statement it could not be said that the action of the trial court in refusing the request for continuance was reversible error (People v. Kees, 32 Ill.2d 299 , 205 N.E.2d 729 ).””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Jackson · 30 Ill. App. 3d 180 - People v. Kaminski