PEOPLE v. ESANG

No. 1-07-2235.

920 N.E.2d 565 (2009)

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Asuquo ESANG, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

December 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, State Appellate Defender and Patricia Unsinn, Deputy Defender, Office of State Appellate Defender (Emily E. Filpi, Assistant Deputy Defender, of counsel), for Appellant.

Anita Alvarez, State's Attorney, County of Cook (James E. Fitzgerald, Alan J. Spellberg, Clare Wesolik Connolly, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for Appellee.


Justice COLEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial in which he acted as his own counsel, Asuquo Esang was convicted of aggravated battery of a police officer and resisting arrest and sentenced to two concurrent two-year terms of imprisonment. He seeks reversal of his convictions, asserting that (1) the trial court erred in finding him competent to waive his right to counsel at a hearing to determine...

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