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PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

No. 75-307.

52 Ill. App.3d 843 (1977)

368 N.E.2d 111

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RONALD JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Rehearing denied October 31, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Agostinelli and Mary Robinson, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Ottawa, for appellant.

Carl E. Hawkinson, State's Attorney, of Galesburg (James E. Hinterlong and Robert Hansen, both of Illinois State's Attorneys Association, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE MILLS delivered the opinion of the court:

Can a recantation be recanted?

Can an "eyeball" witness twice repudiate, cancel out the recanted testimony by yet another retraction, and thus destroy his veracity as a means of disproving his original convicting evidence?

We say yes.

And we affirm.

At the trial of Ronald Johnson, Earl Stewart testified that...

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