{"id":211,"date":"2008-07-23T22:43:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T04:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/defendants-right-to-be-present-violated\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T22:43:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T04:43:24","slug":"defendants-right-to-be-present-violated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/23\/defendants-right-to-be-present-violated\/","title":{"rendered":"Defendant&#8217;s Right to be Present Violated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a 2-1 decision by our Appellate Court in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/COURT\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2008\/1stDistrict\/May\/1051149.pdf\" title=\"p v, mclaurein\"> People v McLaurin<\/a>,\u00a0<a name=\"7131-\" title=\"Click to highlight all pinpoint pages for this reporter\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><em>2008 Ill. App. LEXIS 426<\/em>, the court reversed Mr McLaurin&#8217;s\u00a0 conviction when he was excluded from discussions among the lawyers and judge\u00a0about \u00a0five jury notes\u00a0and when the trial court directed the sheriff to have an ex-parte discussion with the jurors by telling them to continue to deliberate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 2-1 decision by our Appellate Court in People v McLaurin,\u00a02008 Ill. App. LEXIS 426, the court reversed Mr McLaurin&#8217;s\u00a0 conviction when he was excluded from discussions among the lawyers and judge\u00a0about \u00a0five jury notes\u00a0and when the trial court directed the sheriff to have an ex-parte discussion with the jurors by telling them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}