PEOPLE v. DUNCAN

No. 62199.

124 Ill.2d 400 (1988)

530 N.E.2d 423

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. WILLIAM DUNCAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramsey Clark, Lawrence W. Schilling and Peter B. Meadow, of New York, New York, and Louis F. Pignatelli, of Rock Falls, for appellant.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Shawn W. Denney, Solicitor General, and Terence M. Madsen and David E. Bindi, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Appellate court reversed; circuit court reversed; cause remanded.

JUSTICE STAMOS delivered the opinion of the court:

On remand, we are again asked to decide whether the trial of defendant, William Duncan, should have been severed from that of his codefendant, Perry Olinger, because testimony about statements by Olinger was admitted although Olinger himself did not testify and thus was not subject to cross-examination regarding the statements. We hold that...

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