PEOPLE v. CLAY

No. 1-01-3462.

812 N.E.2d 473 (2004)

349 Ill.App.3d 517

285 Ill.Dec. 653

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roosevelt CLAY, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

June 21, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender (Beth Herndobler, of counsel), for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Cook County (Renee Goldfarb, Alan J. Spellberg, William J. Dennison II, of counsel), for Appellee.


Justice McNULTY delivered the opinion of the court:

The trial court, after a bench trial, found defendant, Roosevelt Clay, guilty of felony murder and armed robbery. On appeal defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and the court's decision to admit evidence of an oral statement defendant made while in police custody. We find the evidence sufficient but we hold that defendant's statement was not admissible. Police elicited defendant's statement after...

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