PEOPLE v. RICHARDSON

No. 1-12-2501.

14 N.E.3d 503 (2014)

2014 IL App (1st) 122501

383 Ill. Dec. 220

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

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

June 23, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anita M. Alvarez , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( Alan J. Spellberg , Annette Collins , and Michelle Katz , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Abishi C. Cunningham, Jr. , Public Defender, of Chicago ( Michaela Kalisiak , Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellee.


OPINION

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

¶ 1 In 2009, the State indicted defendant Melvin Richardson for aggravated criminal sexual assault on a 17-year-old. The assault allegedly took place in 1997, 15 years earlier, when Richardson himself was 14 years old. The victim reported the crime immediately, but she did not know her assailant's identity at the time of the occurrence. Years later, a Combined DNA Index System...

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