PEOPLE v. ADAMS

No. 111168.

962 N.E.2d 410 (2012)

356 Ill. Dec. 725

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Romney ADAMS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

January 20, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa Madigan , Attorney General, Springfield, and James W. Glasgow , State's Attorney, Joliet ( Michael A. Scodro , Solicitor General, and Michael M. Glick and David A. Simpson , Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Patrick Delfino , Terry A. Mertel and Thomas D. Arado , of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Michael J. Pelletier , State Appellate Defender, Peter A. Carusona , Deputy Defender, and Bryon S. Kohut , Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellee.


OPINION

Justice BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 The primary issue in this appeal is whether a prosecutor may properly argue to a jury that a police officer's testimony should be believed because he would not risk "his credibility, his job, and his freedom" by lying, when no evidence that those consequences would occur was introduced at trial. The appellate court held that such argument was improper and, under the facts of...

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