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PEOPLE v. RICHMOND

No. 1-01-1656.

791 N.E.2d 1132 (2003)

341 Ill. App.3d 39

274 Ill.Dec. 721

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Samuel RICHMOND, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

Rehearing Denied July 2, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Sarah Curry, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, James E. Fitzgerald, and Janet C. Mahoney, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Among the matters to be decided in this predatory criminal sexual assault case is the State's suggestion that we abandon the requirement that the occurrence of a crime cannot be established solely by a defendant's uncorroborated confession—the corpus delicti rule.

The issue arises from a jury verdict finding Samuel Richmond guilty of two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a six-year...

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