PEOPLE v. RICHARDSON

Docket No. 1-11-1788.

1 N.E.3d 964 (2013)

2013 IL App (1st) 111788

377 Ill. Dec. 77

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jenise RICHARDSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

November 13, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier , Alan D. Goldberg , and Rachel Moran , all of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Chicago, for appellant.

Anita M. Alvarez , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg , Mary P. Needham , and Sarah L. Simpson , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


OPINION

Justice NEVILLE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Justice Pucinski concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Mason dissented, with opinion.

¶ 1 A jury found Jenise Richardson guilty of the aggravated battery of a child. In this appeal, Richardson contends that the trial court committed plain error by failing to ask the venire members whether they understood that the defendant had no burden of proving her innocence and the...

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