16 Ill. App. 3d 1037 - People v. Newbern’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““We find, however, that such explanation was in the context of the waiver of jury trial preliminary to proceeding upon a bench trial. At such time of the prior waiver, there had been no occasion to admonish within the context of the Supreme Court Rule that upon a plea of guilty there would be no trial at all, and that such plea served as a waiver of defendant’s right to be confronted by the witnesses against him. In so far as defendant had observed at the bench trial, witnesses had been examined and cross-examined in his behalf. We must conclude that the record does not affirmatively show that the court gave the admonitions concerning jury waiver within the total context of the Supreme Court Rule.” (Emphasis added.) (People v. Newbern (1974), 16 Ill. App. 3d 1037, 1038 , 307 N.E.2d 439, 440 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 128 Ill. App. 3d 415 - People v. Sutherland