209 Ill. Dec. 74 - People v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young · 142 Ill. 2d 258 - People v. Henderson · 142 Ill. 2d 13 - People v. Streit
Most-quoted passages
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““Lawyers and judges may understand that finding a defendant not guilty of first degree murder permits the jury to stop deliberations as to guilt right there. The jury in this case was not so instructed. Instead, it was directed to look for a form which the State said it would furnish, but did not, and the court instructed the jury would be provided, but was not. The circuit court’s failure to give this instruction deprived the jury of considering an alternative to guilty of second degree murder, which the court said it would give, since the only ‘not guilty’ instruction given was that related to first degree murder, without any further explanation. Prejudice to defendant under these circumstances should need no highlighting.” Cross, 272 Ill. App. 3d at 361 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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