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PEOPLE v. McNEAL

No. 1-97-1170.

704 N.E.2d 793 (1998)

301 Ill. App.3d 889

235 Ill.Dec. 220

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jarvis McNEAL, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

December 4, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago, for Defendant-Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, James Fitzgerald and James P. Lynch, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Justice LEAVITT delivered the opinion of the court:

A judge found Jarvis McNeal in direct criminal contempt of court after he invoked his fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination and refused to testify as a prosecution witness/victim at Dante Brown's trial for murder, attempt murder and aggravated battery. The judge sentenced McNeal to six months incarceration, and ordered that sentence to run consecutively with whatever sentence might later be imposed...

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