PEOPLE v. JACKSON

No. 1-02-3105.

828 N.E.2d 1222 (2005)

357 Ill. App.3d 313

293 Ill.Dec. 724

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wilbert JACKSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

April 28, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Godfrey, State Appellate Defender, Chicago (Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Christopher W. Buckley, Assistant Appellate Defender, of counsel), for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Assistant State's Attorneys Renee Goldfarb, William D. Carroll and Nancy Colletti, of counsel), for Appellee.


Justice QUINN delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant Wilbert Jackson was convicted of the first degree murder of Terry Johnson and sentenced to 55 years in prison. On appeal, defendant contends that: (1) he was denied his right to a fair trial where the trial court refused his limiting instruction on evidence of gang involvement and failed to instruct the jury regarding the use of evidence pertaining to gang involvement and collateral...

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