PEOPLE v. SANDOVAL

No. 68286.

135 Ill.2d 159 (1990)

552 N.E.2d 726

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. SANTIAGO SANDOVAL, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied April 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Fred L. Foreman, State's Attorney, of Waukegan (Robert J. Ruiz, Solicitor General, Terence M. Madsen and Jack Donatelli, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Kenneth R. Boyle, John X. Breslin and Nancy Rink Carter, all of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Robert P. Will, Jr., of Will & Briscoe, of Waukegan, for appellee.


Appellate court judgment reversed; circuit court judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

At issue in this case is the admissibility of certain evidence about the sexual history of the complainant under the State's rape shield statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 115-7). Santiago Sandoval, appellee, was found guilty on two counts of criminal sexual assault (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985...

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