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PEOPLE v. HARRIS

No. 1-06-3086.

904 N.E.2d 1077 (2009)

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nicole HARRIS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

March 13, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, County of Cook, Chicago, IL, James E. Fitzgerald, Peter Fischer, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel, for Plaintiff-Appellee, People of the State of Illinois.

Robert R. Stauffer, Sarah Hardgrove-Koleno, Jeffrey S. Eberhard, Shannon P. Bartlett, Jenner & Block LLP, Steven A. Drizin, Alison R. Flaum, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant, Nicole Harris.

Justice TOOMIN delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant Nicole Harris was found guilty of first degree murder of her four-year-old son and sentenced to a term of 30 years' imprisonment. On appeal, she asserts that: (1) the trial court erred in denying her motion to suppress statements; (2) the court abused its discretion in finding a key defense witness incompetent to testify; (3) in the absence of proof of the corpus delicti, the...

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