171 Ill. App. 3d 178 - People v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
January 1996
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Lee v. Illinois · Parker v. Randolph
Most-quoted passages
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“The naive assumption that prejudicial effects can be overcome by instructions to the jury *** all practicing lawyers know to be unmitigated fiction” (People v. Burns (1988), 171 Ill. App. 3d 178, 185 , 524 N.E.2d 1164 );”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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