PEOPLE v. BROWN

No. 1-06-1760.

903 N.E.2d 863 (2009)

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis BROWN, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

February 23, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anita M. Alvarez, State's Attorney, County of Cook, James E. FitzGerald, Manny Magence, Anna K. Weber, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Patricia Unsinn, Deputy Defender, Christopher Kopacz, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.


Justice GARCIA delivered the opinion of the court.

Following a jury trial, the defendant Dennis Brown was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver within 1,000 feet of a school and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. The defendant presents a single issue: whether he was denied "a fair and impartial jury when the trial judge interfered with the selection of an unbiased jury by ordering the first potential juror who admitted that he could not be...

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