PEOPLE v. CAMPBELL

No. 94425.

802 N.E.2d 1205 (2003)

208 Ill.2d 203

280 Ill.Dec. 684

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Richard D. CAMPBELL, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied January 26, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, and Gary R. Peterson, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for appellant.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, and John C. Piland, State's Attorney, Urbana (Lisa Anne Hoffman and Mary Beth Burns, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Justice THOMAS delivered the opinion of the court:

At issue in this case is whether defense counsel, by stipulating to the admission of evidence, can waive a defendant's constitutional right to confront the source of the evidence without the defendant's knowing consent to the stipulation. The appellate court, with one justice dissenting, held that defense counsel can stipulate to prosecution testimony without a defendant's knowing consent because the decision to stipulate...

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