JURY GUILTY VERDICT OF MURDER REVERSED ON REASONABLE DOUBT!

 

In an interesting opinion by  recently appointed JUSTICE LAVIN, our Appellate Court finds that defendant’s conviction for murder and 36 years IDOC sentence based on the theory of accontability must be reversed because there was a total absence of evidence against the alleged actual offenders. Justice LAVIN joined by J Toomin and Howse finds that the trial court [J Gaughn] should have granted defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.  Read all about it at People v Shawn Garrett, 1-08-3499 3/26/10.