PEOPLE v. TAYLOR

No. 5-03-0214.

828 N.E.2d 799 (2005)

357 Ill. App.3d 220

293 Ill.Dec. 489

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bryan TAYLOR, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

April 19, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Kirwan, Deputy Defender, Rita K. Peterson, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Mt. Vernon, IL, for Appellant.

Charles Garnati, State's Attorney, Marion, IL; Norbert J. Goetten, Director, Stephen E. Norris, Deputy Director, T. David Purcell, Staff Attorney, Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Mt. Vernon, IL, for Appellee.


Justice CHAPMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Bryan Taylor, was convicted of three counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and was sentenced to three consecutive 30-year terms of imprisonment, to run consecutively to a 55-year sentence he was serving at the time of the trial. He seeks the reversal of his convictions on the basis that the State failed to lay an adequate foundation for DNA evidence and expert opinion testimony, the only direct...

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