PEOPLE v. HOLLINS

No. 3-04-0761.

852 N.E.2d 414 (2006)

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Javar HOLLINS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.

June 28, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fletcher P. Hamill (Court-appointed) (argued), Office of the State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, for Javar Hollins.

Lawrence M. Bauer, Deputy Director, State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, Edward D. Smith, State's Attorney, Kankakee, Terry A. Mertel (argued), State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, for the People.


Justice McDADE delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant brings this appeal claiming that his right to be tried by a jury chosen from a fair cross-section of his community was violated when the Kankakee County jury coordinator intentionally manipulated the racial composition of his jury venire. The trial court rejected defendant's claim on the procedural grounds that he waived any right to challenge the composition of the jury venire when he failed to object at...

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